Open in app Sign up Sign in Write Sign up Sign in ![\\"\\"](\\" # FALSE: Asumbi Girls was not ranked the top school in the 2020 KCSE exams ## According to a list shared on Asumbi Girls High School’s Facebook page, the school emerged third in the Nyanza region. ![\\"PesaCheck\\"](\\" ![\\"PesaCheck\\"](\\" PesaCheck · Follow Published in PesaCheck · 4 min read · May 19, 2021 \-- Listen Share ![\\"\\"](\\" A Facebook post claiming that Asumbi Girls High School in Homa Bay County, Nyanza region, emerged as the top school nationally in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations is FALSE. ![\\"\\"](\\" A ranking of schools in the Nyanza region posted on Asumbi Girls’ Facebook page places the school at number three, after Maranda High School in Siaya County and Maseno School in Kisumu County. ![\\"\\"](\\" Though the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has not ranked schools based on how they performed nationally in the 2020 KCSE exams, various independent organisations produced lists based on the KNEC data, including this one from Nation Newsplex. KNEC stopped ranking schools in November 2014 after a Ministry of Education task force recommended that ranking of schools be made more holistic rather than based on performance in national exams only. Former Education principal secretary, Belio Kipsang, pointed out that the ranking of schools and students was causing schools to engage in unethical practices in order to be rated higher in national examinations. “Ranking of schools was leading to increased costs of education and making some schools either force weak children to repeat or register them in various examination centers for fear that they would pull down the mean score of the schools,” Mr Kipsang noted. He added that the positioning also caused schools to ignore co-curricular activities and instead focus on good performance in national examinations. These factors informed the ban in the ranking of schools and students in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and KCSE exams. PesaCheck has looked into a Facebook post claiming that Asumbi Girls High School in Homa Bay County, Nyanza region, emerged as the top school nationally in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations, and finds it to be FALSE. This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as _potential misinformation_ on Facebook and other social media platforms. By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds. Have you spotted what you think is fake news or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content. This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker _Naomi Wanjiku_ and edited by PesaCheck chief copy editor _Rose Lukalo_ _._ The article was approved for publication by managing editor _Enock Nyariki_ _._ ![\\"\\"](\\" ![\\"\\"](\\" PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by _Catherine Gicheru_ and _Justin Arenstein_, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: _Code for Africa_. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. _PesaCheck_also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit ___pesacheck.org_ _._ ![\\"\\"](\\" Follow Us ![\\"\\"](\\" Like Us ![\\"\\"](\\" Email Us PesaCheck is an initiative of _Code for Africa_, through its _innovateAFRICA fund_, with support from _Deutsche Welle Akademie_, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations. ![](\\" ## Sign up to discover human stories that deepen your understanding of the world. ## Free Distraction-free reading. No ads. Organize your knowledge with lists and highlights. Tell your story. Find your audience. Sign up for free ## Membership Read member-only stories Support writers you read most Earn money for your writing Listen to audio narrations Read offline with the Medium app Try for $5/month Kenya Short Form English \-- \-- ![\\"PesaCheck\\"](\\" ![\\"PesaCheck\\"](\\" Follow ## Written by PesaCheck 5.8K Followers ·Editor for PesaCheck Are they lying? Kenya’s 1st fact-checking initiative verifies statements by public figures. A @Code4Kenya and @IBP_Kenya initiative, supported by @Code4Africa. Follow Help Status About Careers Press Blog Privacy Terms Text to speech Teams
Asumbi girls was number one in Kenya in the KCSE 2020 exams