Ng'iya Girls High School is a girls'
national school in
Ng'iya Township
Ng'iya Township is located in the Siaya County of Western Kenya
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Siaya County
Siaya County is one of the counties in the former Nyanza Province in the Western part of Kenya. It is bordered by Busia County to the north, Kakamega County and Vihiga County's to the northeast and Kisumu County to the southeast. It shares a wa ...
, in Western
Kenya
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History and operations
The school was founded in 1923 as a
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
. In 1953 it became a
teacher training college
A normal school or normal college is an institution created to Teacher education, train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum. In the 19th century in the United States, instruction in normal schools was at the high s ...
(TTC). In 1962, Ng'iya Girls became a
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
and admitted its first
form one students who sat their “O” level exams in 1965.
In 1971, it enrolled the first
A-Level
The A-Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational aut ...
science class offering Science and Arts A-Level classes. This continued till 1989, when the A-level system was phased out.
The school was identified as a
Centre of Excellence
A center of excellence (COE or CoE ), also called excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support or training for a focus area.
Due to its broad usage and vague legal prec ...
in 2010, and officially promoted to a national school in 2012.
In 2018, it was closed after it was damaged by students protesting the school's management.
Notable alumnae
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Grace Ogot
Grace Emily Ogot (née Akinyi; 15 May 1930 – 18 March 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she was the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published.Mike Kuria, ed. ''Tal ...
, author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
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Mary Abukutsa-Onyango
Mary Oyiela Abukutsa-Onyango (born 20 February 1959) is a humanitarian and agricultural scientist from Kenya who specializes in olericulture, agronomy, plant physiology. Abukutsa-Onyango is a professor of horticulture at Jomo Kenyatta University o ...
, humanitarian and agricultural scientist
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Grace Onyango, politician
See also
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Education in Kenya
Education in Kenya refers to the education system in Kenya. It is considered a basic right that should be offered to every individual. Education in Kenya predates to as early as the 18th century among the Swahili people. The earliest school was ...
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List of schools in Kenya
This is a list of notable schools in Kenya.
Primary schools
Primary schools in Kenya may be designated as follows:
* DEB indicating that they were founded by the now abolished District Education Boards, hence were public schools from the start.
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References
1923 establishments in Kenya
Education in Nyanza Province
Educational institutions established in 1923
Elementary and primary schools in Kenya
Girls' schools in Kenya
High schools and secondary schools in Kenya
Siaya County
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