Top 10 Most Unbelievably Expensive Schools In Kenya. The Cost Per Term Will Blow You Away. Ciku Muiruri’s Daughter Attended One of These
The best thing about being rich is you can enjoy a lot of luxuries that life has to offer, the fast cars, the palatial palaces and designer merchandise among other things. An added perk is that you can offer your children the best kind of education can buy. And that is where these 10 most expensive schools come into play.
These are the schools where the rich and famous like to take their children. Most of them offer the British Curriculum and their school fees is pretty crazy with caution fees amounting to 150,000, registration fees 50,000 and applications fees 10,000 Kshs.
I came across a video on youtube that listed the top 10 most expensive schools giving out in figures how each and every school cost per term.
With the video as my guide, I did some digging to find out what these schools offer, where they are located and when they were established.
Here is where you are likely to find the Blue Ivy’s of Kenya attending:
10: Kenton College Preparatory School that is located in the leafy suburbs of Kileleshwa comes in at number 10.
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The school was established in January 1924 at Kijabe before moving to Westwood Park Hotel in Ngong’ during World War 2 and subsequently to Kileleleshwa. In this school that was originally owned by Finlay Cramb, you pay Kshs 675,918 per term. So why do we pay an arm and a leg for this school? It is considered one of the top 500 Preparatory Schools in the World.
9. The Banda School-I’m as sure we have all heard about this school that is located in Lang’ata, fourteen kilometers away from the town centre and borders the Nairobi National Park.
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Mr. and Mrs. Chitty founded the school 1966 and is currently one of the largest Preparatory schools in the world and one of the best international school in Kenya offering the British curriculum.
The tuition fees per term are 695,000 depending on which year and the outstanding academic, sporting and cultural achievements set it apart from the rest. They also have I pads in school.
8. Gems Cambridge International School .
It is owned and operated by GEMS Education, it’s located in the posh suburbs of Karen. The tuition fee is Kshs 718,480. Its sister schools are located in India, Abu Dhabi and Kampala.
7.Braeburn Imani International School. It’s one of the newest branches of the Braeburn Group of Schools.
Photo: imani.braeburn.com
The school is located along Mangu Road, Thika and offers a British Curriculum for early years, primary and high school, the school fess is 727,800 per term.
6.Hillcrest International School: The school is located in the South West of Nairobi in the suburb of Karen. It stated started out as a preparatory school in 1966 before expanding into a full blown campus that comprises of Hillcrest Early Years, Hillcrest Preparatory, Hillcrest Secondary and Hillcrest Senior School.
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It’s owned by the Hillcrest Investments Limited. School fees amounts to 782,310, super pricey by Kenyan Standards.
5.Peponi School is based about a kilometer away from the Thika Super Highway and is reportedly owned by the Kenyatta family, Kenya’s first family.
Photo: peponischool.org
It boasts of state-of-the-art facilities and offers activities such as Water Polo, Gym and Aerobics which are common in developed countries but are rare in most Kenyan schools. You pay around 792,000 per term.
4.Brookhouse School is located in Lang’ata on your way to Rongai. The school which bears a striking resemblance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (a fictional British school in the Harry Potter Series) offers early, preparatory and secondary schooling.
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The school also offers a British Curriculum and students pay 830,000 Kenya Shillings as school fees per term.
3.St Andrews Turi- The school is located at Turi, between Kericho and Nakuru and offers education in the following educational levels: preparatory school, senior school and college. It was established in 1931 by the Levets before it burned down on 29th February, 1941and was later rebuilt by Italian prisoners of war. (Source:http://www.standrewsturi.com/Whole_School/History/index.asp)
The school which only the rich can afford has a tuition fee of Kshs 994,500 and that is where Ciku Muiruri’s daughter Erica Gachoka schooled.
2. Greensteds International School .
You know things are about to get crazy when the school fees per term surpasses the 1 Million mark. 1,010,000 Kshs to be exact is what you have to pay for your child to school in this high end school.
The school was established in 1936 and just like Banda School, its located near a national park, Nakuru National Park to be exact. Its located 6km from Nakuru .
1. International school of Kenya (ISK)
takes the cake with a whopping 2,070,204 as school fees .It’s the largest international school in Kenya and its notable alumnus include Dan Eldon an English photojournalist and Karen Graham, Canadian author and dietitian.
Unlike most schools on the list, it offers a North American curriculum together with the International Baccalaureate Diploma program.
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There you have it ladies and gentlemen, the most expensive schools in Kenya.
