Kampala Parents has retained its spot as one of Uganda’s best performing schools in the just released Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE).
174 pupils (76%) passed in first grade out of 228, while 54 passed in second grade. This is nearly 8 times better than the national average- only 10.1% of pupils passed in Division 1.
15 pupils scored aggregate four (4); 16 with aggregate 5, while 22 scored aggregate 6.
This is a continuation of the school’s good performance- in 2018, all of 234 pupils passed in first grade, while in 2017, out of the 274 pupils sitting for PLE, 274 passed in first grade and the rest second grade.
Kampala Parents School is one of the Ruparelia Group education services that also include: Kampala International School, Delhi Public School International and Victoria University.
National Performance- more girls completing Primary 7 than boys
A total of 695,804 candidates from 13,475 centres (schools) registered for PLE in 2019. Of this number 473,893 (68.2%) were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries, and 221,912 (31.8%) of the candidates were Non-UPE.
This represents a 3.6% increase in candidature and is above the 5-year average increase of 2.4%.
For a fifth year in a row, there were more girls completing primary school than boys- 336,040 (48.3%) boys compared to 359,764 (51.7%) girls in 2019. However, proportionally boys performed better than girls at the upper grades, and with a lower failure rate. 11.9% of boys passed in Division 1 compared to 8.5% for females and in grade 2, there were 48.4% of boys compared to 44.6% for girls.
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The Board registered 1,315 learners with special needs of various categories. The blind, the deaf, the physically handicapped and the dyslexics among others. Of these, 49.3% are females and 50.7% are males.
Daphne Katto, the school’s principal was elated at the performance and thanked parents, teachers, the pupils and the school proprietors for the combined effort.
“In 2019, we registered a remarkable increase in the number of pupils passing with aggregate 4 from four pupils in 2018 to fifteen in 2019, she said, adding that admissions at the school were still ongoing.
“We still have room from pre-primary to Primary 6,” she said.
About Kampala Parents
The Ruparelia Group recently invested $7 million into facelifting and expanding the school- building 35 new classrooms, creating a total of 110 classrooms at the school. Two (2) state of the art libraries, 2 ICT rooms, 2 science labs, 2 home science labs, 1 media room, 1 stitching room, 1 music room, 1 drama room and a 2,000-seater multipurpose hall to double both as the dining hall and recreation centre were also built.
A new swimming pool, a basketball court and an extra playing field were added as well as a 500-capacity purpose-built kindergarten and a day care centre with a capacity of up to 200 toddlers. The school also had a security wall fence erected around the 13-acre school complex as part of the expansion to boost security of the pupils.
The school has an installed capacity for 3,000 pupils in the upper primary school section and 700 kids in the kindergarten and day care sections. The school admits pupils from 2 years (pre-primary) up to Primary 7.
