Parents and guardians of grade nine students who sat for the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA) can now confirm the results of their children, after their official release.
The KJSEA examinations, conducted between October 27 and November 3, are designed to evaluate students’ readiness to transition into senior secondary schools.
The KJSEA is designed to evaluate learners’ competencies in various areas, including English, Kiswahili, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Social Studies, Religious Education, Agriculture, Pre-Technical Studies, Creative Arts, and Physical Education.
Releasing the results, Education CS Julius Ogamba announced that seven subjects recorded a higher proportion of learners meeting expectations. Among the best-performing learning areas were Hindu Religious Education, Integrated Science, Social Studies, Creative Arts and Sports, Kiswahili, CRE and Agriculture.
Of the 1,130,459 learners who sat the 2025 KJSEA, 578,630 were male, while 551,829 were female, representing 51.19 per cent and 48.81 per cent of the total learners, respectively, highlighting a near-balanced gender distribution nationwide.
Unlike traditional exams, the results have been released without ranking, placing learners into four performance bands: Exceeding Expectations, Meeting Expectations, Approaching Expectations, and Below Expectations. This shift is aimed at reducing unhealthy competition among students and schools.
KJSEA results contribute 60 percent of the learners’ final score, while the remaining 40 percent comes from classroom assessments done in Grades 7 and 8. This integrated assessment approach aims to provide a more holistic picture of each learner’s strengths and abilities.
Each subject carries a maximum of eight points, with nine subjects tested, giving a possible cumulative total of 72 points. While exact percentage marks will not be revealed to candidates, the scores are used to determine the learner’s placement within the four performance bands.
In the Exceeding Expectations band, scores of 75-100 per cent are awarded seven to eight points. The Meeting Expectations band covers scores from 41-74 per cent, Approaching Expectations 21-40 per cent, and Below Expectations 0-20 per cent. Each band is further subdivided to create an eight-level score matrix for more precise placement.
How to Check Results
The Ministry has enabled parents to access the results of their children through the Ministry’s official portal;
Visit the Portal ; https://kjsea.knec.ac.ke
Enter Assessment Number; Input the learner’s unique assessment number in the designated field.
Submit and View Results; Click Submit to display the full results, including subject scores and placement details.
Download or Print; Save a copy of the result slip for future reference. Schools will also provide printed copies.
The portal is optimized for mobile and desktop access. However, due to high traffic, users are advised to retry if the page loads slowly.
For Institutional Results
1. Head of Institution to log in to the CBA portal cba.knec.ac.ke
2. Click on the Results menu
3. Click on the download link to view the institution's results.
Alternatively, Schools have received official result slips. Parents and guardians can collect them directly for verification and guidance.
How to check school your child has been placed
The Ministry of Education, together with Safaricom, has activated a secure service that allows learners’ school selections to be verified quickly through SMS.
To check a KJSEA learners selected schools, send their assessment number to 22263. The SMS costs KSh 30.
Learners will be able to access their placement letters before December 25 and report to their new schools starting January 12, 2026.
In addition to the SMS service, parents can also check school selections online. By visiting https://selection.education.go.ke/my-selections and entering a learner’s assessment number, they can view the schools chosen and the learning pathways selected.
This provides an opportunity to confirm placements and plan for the upcoming academic year.
The 2025 KJSEA saw 1,130,669 grade nine students sit for the exams, marking a key milestone in the transition to the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
Under the new placement system, learners were required to select 12 schools according to their preferred pathways: seven for the first choice, three for the second, and two for the third.
Nine of these must be boarding schools; three within the learner’s home county and six outside, while the remaining three are day schools in the learner’s sub-county.
Placement decisions are based on five factors: learner choice, merit from KJSEA and previous assessments, psychometric test results, equity to ensure regional balance and affirmative action, and the capacity of schools to accommodate students.
Special arrangements have also been made to ensure top-performing learners and those with special needs are given priority in their preferred schools.
Education CS Julius Ogamba emphasised that senior secondary schools must be ready to receive the first cohort of grade 10 students under CBC by January 12, 2026.
“Senior schools should be ready to receive their first cohort of grade 10 learners by the 12th or from the 12th of January 2026,” he said. “These learners transitioning under the competency-based education framework will require support to adapt successfully and coexist with students still undertaking the 844 curriculum in the institutions that they are joining.”
Education CS stated that learners will not be issued certificates, as was the case with the now phased-out Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). Instead, they will receive result slips indicating their performance in each subject.
This year’s KJSEA marks the second national rollout under CBC, replacing the traditional KCPE system.
