Utumishi Girls Academy Senior School is a public girls’ boarding secondary school located in Gilgil sub- county in Nakuru County. It is among the schools in the C1 category of the public senior secondary schools under the Competency-Based Education (CBE) system.
Formerly a national school, the public school was known as Utumishi Girls Academy Secondary School.
“The school, known historically as Utumishi Girls Academy Secondary School, has played a vital role in Nakuru’s education sector. Today, the institution maintains its status as a C1 public senior school,” Utumishi Academy.
Additionally, the school offers educational services to students in Grades 10, 11, and 12 under the new learning framework.
Utumishi Girls Academy Background
In 1990, Edward Mbugua, a former patron of Utumishi Boys’ Academy, founded the Utumishi Academy.
Utumishi Girls Academy is linked to the management by the National Police Service and made admission of the first form 1 students in 2022, presenting its second KCSE cohort in 2024.
The school is located within the former African Police Training Center APTC), which is currently the National Police College in Rift Valley.
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KCSE Performance
In the 2024 Kenya Secondary Certificate Education (KCSE) cohort, the school presented a mean score of 7.88.
Additionally, the school had 4 students with a mean grade of A-, 11 with a B+, and 25 with a B plain in the KCSE.
Further, the school had 41 students with a B- grade and 35 with a C+. 17 students scored a mean grade of C.
During that year, two students scored a C- grade; however, the school recorded the highest university transition rate.
“The National Police Service also extends immense pride in congratulating our Utumishi Girls’ Academy for their outstanding performance in the just-released 2024 KCSE results, marked by: 4 A-,11 B+,25 B,41 B-,35 C+,17 C,2.C-, and a mean score of 7.88, with C- being the least grade,” NPS stated.
During the 2025 KCSE, Utumishi Girls Academy’s mean score increased to 8.57, with the top-performing student having a mean grade of A in the examinations.
Further, six students from the school had a mean grade of A-, while 22 students scored B+ in the 2025 KCSE.
54 students in the same KCSE cohort scored a mean grade of B; 42 scored a B-; and 3 scored a C.
As in the 2024 KCSE cohort, the school recorded 2 C- grades as the lowest grade in the 2025 examination, maintaining a high university placement rate of approximately 96%.
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Admission Process
As a C1 school, the admission process in the Utumishi Girls Academy follows the Ministry of Education’s centralized placement service.
According to the Ministry placement service, grade 10 students’ placement is based on the Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA) score.
Students select schools through the MOE portal during the open placement window and await placement.
In instances of transfer students, which are limited, Utumishi School, as well as the County Education Office, handles the transfers.
However, under some circumstances, students whose parents serve at the NPS have coordinated applications through the police county commands.
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