Grade 10 students will be allowed to change their senior school placement and career pathways from Tuesday, December 23, 2025. This will be done during the revision window that has been provided by the Ministry of Education.
The window is meant to allow learners who were not satisfied with the choice of schools or pathways they got to select new options that they qualify for. The window will last for seven days.
“We encourage all involved parties to engage constructively in the placement process as we collectively refine and strengthen Curriculum Based Education (CBE) for the benefit of our learners. We [want] to make the placement process as transparent, fair, and satisfactory as possible while taking into account learners’ preferences and the capacities and available pathways in respective schools,” said Professor Julius Bitok, the Principal Secretary for Basic Education.
“Candidates are advised to contact their Grade 9 schools or the Ministry of Education Sub-County and County offices to take advantage of this window through their respective heads of institutions.”
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According to the Ministry of Education, the review will be guided by an automated system that will match preferences to learners’ performance and the availability of slots in schools. During the review period, incorrect gender entries will also be addressed.
The Ministry says that learners will then be able to submit their revised choices, which will include switching from STEM to Social Sciences as long as they meet the requirements for the switch and the new schools of choice have open spaces.
The new choices will be submitted through their junior schools. The system will generate schools that are available for selection out of which the learners will pick from.
Currently, placement results are accessible through the ministry’s portal placement.education.go.ke
For the KJSEA exams, 600,000 chose the STEM pathway, 437,000 chose Social Science while 124,000 chose Arts & Sports. The results of the KJSEA comprised of an aggregate of 20 percent from the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) which is done at Grade Six, 20 percent from the school-based assessments (SBA) which is done in Grade Seven and Grade Eight, and 60 percent from the Grade Nine KJSEA assessment.
