Kampala Parents School has continued its winning streak in the Primary Leaving Exams, with 291 out of the 410 pupils who sat the 2022 Primary Leaving Exams (PLE) passing in first grade.
This is an equivalent of 71 per cent. This is 5 times above the national average and 2.3 times the average of first grades in private schools.
According to the national results released yesterday by the Ministry of Education & Sports, 14.1% of the students who sat (114,617), passed in division 1 and 44.1% (357,799) passed in division 2.
31.4% of pupils in private schools only (77,039) passed in division 1 while 48.7% (119,512) passed in Division 2
According to Daphne Kato, the School’s Principal, 89 pupils of those who passed in first grade, scored between 4 to 6 aggregates- 16 scored aggregate 4; 32 got aggregate 5 and 41 garnered aggregate 6.
43 pupils got aggregate 7; 37 scored aggregate 9; 31 got aggregate 10; 33 scored aggregate 11 and 16 got aggregate 12.
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The remaining 29% passed in second grade.
A total of 832,654 candidates from 14,691 centres (schools) registered for PLE in 2022 compared to 749,761 in 2020. Of this number, 583,768 (70.1%) from 11,306 centres were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries, and 248,982 (29.9%) of the candidates were Non-UPE.
The proportion of candidates benefitting from the Universal Education programme has increased by 1.7 per cent.
An analysis by gender shows that 400,100 (48.1%) boys were registered compared to 432,554 (51.9%) girls, indicating that more girls than boys completed the Primary Education cycle.
2,436 learners with Special Needs of various categories, including the blind, the deaf, the physically handicapped and the dyslexics, sat for the exams, compared to 1,599 in 2020. This is an increase of 52.3%, the largest rate of increase ever. Of these, 1,153 (47.3%) are females and 1,283 (52.7%) are males. A total of 1,609 of the candidates needed specialized assistance such as provision of braille, sign language interpreters, transcribers and physical support (amanuensis). The provision of this specialized support presents a big constraint on the Board’s budget.