Jubilation as Light Academy Nairobi posts impressive KCSE results

Parents and teachers at Light Academy Nairobi, celebrate after Getugi Christiaan Nyambane, Allan Ryan Kiplagat, Kiarie Muranga and Seth Zawadi scored A in 2024 KCSE, on January 9, 2025. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

There were celebrations at Light Academy Nairobi after the school posted good results in the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).

According to the results received by Thursday evening, 15 students had scored A.

Among the top students were Allan Ryan Kiplagat, Kiarie Muranga and Christiaan Getugi Nyambane who scored A of 84 points and Seth Zawadi with A of 82 points, Ian Muse and Warren Lwanya had A of 83 and Joseph Otochi A of 81 points.

Speaking to The Standard, Ryan and Seth expressed joy and thanked God, teachers and parents for the good performance.

“Am very happy that I got these results. I want to thank God for the wisdom, my teachers and parents’ advice that they gave me,” said Getugi.

For Ryan, who scored A in all subjects, he said God did it for him.

“I feel more than elated, it’s a surreal experience. First of all I thank God for the results and secondly my parents for being my pillar through their support and thirdly to our teachers and support staff who went an extra mile to enable us get the good marks,” said the student who wants to study Medicine at the university.

Light Academy Principal Nihat Arslan said the Karen-based school had a total of 138 candidates and attributed the good performance to collaboration, cooperation and hardwork.

“Today we are very happy for the results. I want to congratulate first my boys, parents, teaching and non-teaching staff for the support they gave during this journey. These are fruits of cooperation, collaboration and hardwork,” said Arslan.

 “Normally in our school we give importance to individual support and in our school the ratio of students is 1:10 and that one really gives us a chance to focus individually and support students accordingly,” he added.

Arslan, said the school targeted to achieve a mean score of 10.5 from the previous year’s 9.59.

He revealed that the school prioritises extra-curricular activities and has more than 30 sports with 4pm to 6pm dedicated to sports time, thus reducing stress and pressure on students.

Ryan’s mother Janet Cherono expressed joy at his good performance.

“Ryan was a day scholar which demystifies the narrative that when you are a day-scholar you can’t get good results," said Cherono.

"I work outside the country in Mozambique and I had to apply for a contract break in his third term since his father is also based in the US, just to support him, take him to and fro school and surely my decision has borne fruits,” she added.