Sheikh Khalifa's Khulaita Abbass (second right) celebrates with her teachers and parents at the institution in Mombasa County on Tuesday. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Sheikh Khalifa High School adopted a strategy it borrowed from Kabarak High School to perform better in this year’s secondary examinations.

For the past three years, the school has topped the charts in KCSE in Coast after posting a mean score of 9.01 points in the 2019 examination.

“We owe this good performance to the bench-marking we did at Kabarak High School in Nakuru early this year,” said the school’s deputy principal Sheikh Rishad Ramadhan, yesterday.

Among the strategies are an intensive uniform topical revisions for all classes which he described as a bedrock for this year’s good performance.

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Mr Ramadhan said since the school had not produced grade A plain in 2017 and 2018 KCSE results, they decided to go and find out how it is done at Kabarak.

He said during their visit, they realised teachers at Kabarak are not jokers and that is why the school has been producing good grades.

“Those teachers are working, they are performers. After the visit we devised a new strategy on how to help students to score higher marks. We have done it and hope we will do it again,” said Ramadhan.

The school got a mean score of 9.01 — three students scored straight As , 38 A- 46 B+, 41 B-, 33 C+ and 7Cs The school produced the best girl in Coast — Khuleita Abbas — who wants to be a doctor. “It has been my desire to help the sick especially after seeing people suffering at Coast General Hospital which is a stone’s throw away from Old Town where I stay,” said Abbas.

Khairat Mohamed from Light Academy also wants to be a medical doctor after scoring 81 points.

The girl said she was surprised by her performance, attributing the success to hard work.

Khairat thanked her parents for support during her last few months to the examination.

“It was not an easy task, I had to work hard with the help of my teachers and  parents who helped me to achieve this grade,” she said.

Najah Mohamed from Istiqama Academy who scored  A-, said he was very exited about his performance.

“I am exited that I am among the top students. Although I knew I would pass, I did not expect this grade,” said Mohamed.