How to check school your child has been placed in before release of KJSEA results

Parents and guardians of grade nine students who sat for the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA) can now confirm the schools their children have been placed in, even before the official results are released.

The Ministry of Education, together with Safaricom, has activated a secure service that allows learners’ school selections to be verified quickly through SMS.

“To check a KJSEA learners selected schools, send their assessment number to 22263. The SMS costs Sh30,” Safaricom said in a text message.

The KJSEA examinations, conducted between October 27 and November 3, are designed to evaluate students’ readiness to transition into senior secondary schools.

Two weeks ago, Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok announced that the results would be released by December 11, 2025.

He noted that the Ministry of Education is ready to manage the transition of more than one million learners who sat for the exams.

Although KNEC has not officially released the results, school placements are expected within a week after the announcement.

Learners will be able to access their placement letters before December 25 and report to their new schools starting January 12, 2026.

In addition to the SMS service, parents can also check school selections online. By visiting https://selection.education.go.ke/my-selections and entering a learner’s assessment number, they can view the schools chosen and the learning pathways selected.

This provides an opportunity to confirm placements and plan for the upcoming academic year.

The 2025 KJSEA saw 1,130,669 grade nine students sit for the exams, marking a key milestone in the transition to the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

Under the new placement system, learners were required to select 12 schools according to their preferred pathways: seven for the first choice, three for the second, and two for the third.

Nine of these must be boarding schools; three within the learner’s home county and six outside, while the remaining three are day schools in the learner’s sub-county.

Placement decisions are based on five factors: learner choice, merit from KJSEA and previous assessments, psychometric test results, equity to ensure regional balance and affirmative action, and the capacity of schools to accommodate students.

Special arrangements have also been made to ensure top-performing learners and those with special needs are given priority in their preferred schools.

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CS Julius Ogamba emphasised that senior secondary schools must be ready to receive the first cohort of grade 10 students under CBC by January 12, 2026.

“Senior schools should be ready to receive their first cohort of grade 10 learners by the 12th or from the 12th of January 2026,” he said. “These learners transitioning under the competency-based education framework will require support to adapt successfully and coexist with students still undertaking the 844 curriculum in the institutions that they are joining.”

As the results release approaches, KNEC has warned parents and learners to stay alert against fraudsters claiming they can alter exam scores.

“Beware of fraudsters purporting to be able to alter candidates’ scores during the marking of the KCSE examination or KJSEA. Please note that all candidates’ answer scripts are anonymised to protect their identity and ensure integrity during marking,” the council stated on December 3.