Something substantial is about to unfold in Nyandarua High School on Monday the 25th of May 2026.
The school will host its Education Day, in a gathering designed to honour academic distinction and co-curricular achievement. The event comes at a moment when the institution commands attention across the county and beyond.
The roster of attendees reads like a roll call of Kenya’s decisionmaking class. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba will grace the occasion as Chief Guest. Alongside him will be Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano.
Nyandarua County Governor Kiarie Badilisha, whose administration has championed the establishment of Nyandarua University College and a raft of development projects, is also expected at the function.
The school’s Alumni Chairman, Stanley Kinyanjui of Magnate Ventures, will join the Chairman of the Board of Management, Mr Kanyingi Waweru, and other board members.The setting for this celebration carries six decades of history.
Nyandarua High School opened its doors on 29th of March 1965 with just 71 boys. Their first classroom was a house that belonged to a white settler, perched just below Rurii shopping centre.
Today, that humble origin has given way to an enrollment of 848 students, among them 564 boys and 284 girls hosted on 21.6 hectares of land.
The institution occupies a singular position in Kenya’s educational landscape as the only mixed national school in the country.
The timing of the Education Day is no accident. Nyandarua High School emerged as the bestperforming secondary school in Nyandarua County in the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations.
An impressive 11 candidates earned the coveted A plain grade, while 31 secured A minus. A further 55 students achieved B plus, 58 attained B plain, and 32 walked away with B minus.
The school recorded a mean score of 9.112 and a university transition rate of 93.75 per cent, with 210 candidates scoring C plus and above. Notably, no candidate scored below D plus. That performance places the institution in an exclusive tier within the county.
The Education Day will also serve as a moment for reflection on what the school has become having transitioned from a single settler’s dwelling to a national school that now shapes the futures of nearly a thousand young Kenyans each year.
Cabinet Secretary Ogamba, who has consistently championed literacy, indigenous languages, and university STEM education, will address the gathering as Chief Guest.
Meanwhile, Governor Badilisha, whose county government has prioritised education infrastructure and the realisation of Nyandarua University College, will lend his voice to the occasion.
And CS Miano, whose portfolio extends from tourism to wildlife conservation, brings a perspective on how the next generation of Kenyans ought to be prepared for a competitive world.
For the students, the teachers, the alumni scattered across professions, and the community that has watched this school grow, Monday the 25th of May 2026 will be a day to mark calendars.
The gates of Nyandarua High School will open to celebrate excellence in its many forms including academic rigour, sporting achievement, and the determination associated with a national institution.
Welcome to Nyandarua High School’s 2026 Education day!Â
