Olympic Primary School

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The Olympic Primary School is a government-run primary school in Kenya. Located in Kibera, a slum district in the capital Nairobi. The school was established in 1980. Over the ensuing years, the school was successful in national examinations and thus attracted pupils from all social classes, from millionaires families, middle-classes, working classes and penniless slum dwellers.

The school is partly funded by the British government and consistently places near the top of Kenya's school league tables.

History[edit]

There were about 1,700 students at the school before 2003. Some 5000 students attempted to enroll at the time that school fees were abolished, but not all could be accommodated. In 2005, enrollment was approximately 2,200. Mid-year, enrollment was 1780 boys and 1787 girls for a total of 3567 students, approximately evenly divided across all 8 class levels. It received a visit from British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in January 2005. The visit aimed to learn about the effects of the 2003 introduction of free primary schooling.

In January 2016, enrollment was 1983 boys and 2063 girls, for a total of 4046 students. In March 2016, the school increased the number of students pupil to 4125 students. On Thursday, March 24, 2016, the school inaugurated 20 new classrooms, bringing the number of classrooms to 45.

Since 2011, performance on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations for the school in November has improved each year. In 2016, the school reached a new record of 420 students sitting for the exam, and a new high average score over the past five years of 295.14.

References[edit]

• Guardian.co.uk article of January 13, 63.stm BBC article] of January 8, 2003

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