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Welcome to Chewoyet High School

Chewoyet High School is a public secondary, Senior, school categorized by the Ministry of Education as C1 under the new Competency-Based Education (CBE) curriculum. The Schools is dedicated to empowering students through quality education, discipline, and integrity, while providing a safe and supportive environment where every child can discover their potential and thrive.

Browse through our website to learn more about the Senior School; from the academic programs and vibrant student life to achievements and community engagement. Get to know more about the school’s physical location and academic programmes.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Here is a quick summary of what to get in this article:

School’s Physical Location
Key details about the school
School’s Fees and Payment details
School Profile and Information
Subject combinations and pathways offered at the school
How to get the school’s Knec Exam Results
Getting more information about the school
How to check grade 10 selection choices.
The School’s History and Legacy
Teaching Staff at the school
The Grade 10 Selection System
Important Contacts
CBE Careers
List of approved TSC Senior School Subject Combinations.
Details of all other Senior Schools in Kenya.

Chewoyet High School || Physical Location

Chewoyet High School is a public National Level Senior School; Classified as C1. The Senior School (Secondary School) is physically located at West Pokot Subcounty in West Pokot County of the Rift Valley Region, Kenya. Placement in the school is done by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kenya. To be placed to join this school, a grade 9 learner has to select the school online and placement is done based on the available grade 10 vacancies. We have also provided the School’s Official Phone Number Contact. Reach the Principal directly on: +254- 0798544455 or 0725908499

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This well researched article provides the latest and accurate on the school’s School Physical Location, Postal Address, Mobile Number, Telephone Number, Email Address and School Website. Also available is the school’s Category, type, level, accomodation type, Knec Code and Performance at KNEC EXAMS.

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Chewoyet High School || Key Details

The Senior school’s story is one of resilience, growth, and community. On this page, you’ll find a summary of the School’s mission, values, and the people who make it all happen. From humble beginnings to a vibrant learning environment, the school serves learners with pride. Whether you’re a parent, student, alumni, or visitor or any Education Stakeholder, we invite you to learn more and become part of the school’s academic journey. Here is a quick run through the school’s key details:

Country where found: Kenya.
Region: Rift Valley Region, Kenya.
County: West Pokot County.
Subcounty: West Pokot Subcounty.
School Type/ Ownership: A Public School that is owned and funded by the Government of Kenya.
Nature of School/ CBE Level: Senior School (SS).
Category: Regular School
School’s Official Name: Chewoyet High School
Sex: Single Sex School; Boys’ School.
School Cluster/ Level: National School whose Classification is C1.
Accomodation Type: Boarding School.
Knec Code: 24500022
Principal’s Mobile Phone Number / School’s Official Phone Number: 0798544455 or 0725908499
Official Email Address for the School: info@chewoyetnationalschool.ac.ke or chewoyetntionalschool@gmail.com
Postal Address: P.O Box 30600, Kapenguria
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Total Number of Subjects Combinations Offered at the School: 38 Different Subjects’ Combinations in various Pathways. (Check all the subjects offred at the school, below; under the title: ‘Subject Combinations Offered’).
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THE LATEST EDUCATION NEWS.
FREE EDUCATION RESOURCES: NOTES & EXAMS.
SCHOOL GAMES NEWS PORTAL.

National Schools in West Pokot Subcounty, West Pokot County

INSTITUTION NAME	SEX	KNEC CODE	CLUSTER	ACCOMODATION TYPE
NASOKOL GIRLS	GIRLS	24505102	C1	BOARDING
KAPENGURIA SCHOOL	BOYS	24505104	C1	BOARDING
CHEWOYET BOYS	BOYS	24500022	C1	BOARDING
ST. FRANCIS SCH. FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED	MIXED	24505117	C1	BOARDING
ST THERESAS TARTAR GIRLS	GIRLS	24500004	C1	BOARDING

Chewoyet High School || SCHOOL’S HISTORY

Chewoyet Boys High school, located 4km from Kapenguria town, has a rich history. The school sits on 400 acres of land and was among the two premier government schools in Rift Valley. The other one was Kapsabet Boys.

Previously, it was known as Rift Valley Junior Secondary School and in the 1940s was an agricultural college.

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In the late 50s, several students chosen from across the country would gather at what is today the Kitale postal office. There, a lorry awaited to take them through the 40km arduous journey to the school.

Setting aside all this, the school is famously known as the court where Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and the other Kapenguria six were put to trial on 8th April 1953. What was then used as the courtroom building has been revamped into a staff room and an administration block.

Notable Alumni

Since its advent, the school has produced some of the big names in the country including:

Former vice president, the late Kijana Wamalwa
The first school captain, and Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Defense, Eugene Wamalwa
Former chief of general staff Daudi Tonje
Former Nairobi town clerk John Gakuo
Former Education Permanent Secretary Dr. Bellio Kipsang.

The school has a rather dubious history with fires. In a span of three years, the school experienced four dorm fires. The last reported case was in 2019 and the school seems to have sorted the issue.

Chewoyet High School: Detailed History

From high-profile personalities involved, to its public attention, landmark legal battles, where it took place, and the quagmire of its jurisdiction, the infamous trial of the Kapenguria Six, that found its way to one of the rooms at Chewoyet High School as the present small courtroom filled to overflowing, indubitably shaped history of Kenya. Played out in remotest Kenya, closed to the public, over a year of fierce court battles, the case captured the world’s attention like no other in Kenya.

It was series of well calculated moves. On August 17, 1952, warrants were issued for the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta, president of the Kenya African Union, and five other officers of the KAU by Mr. F. Wilson, then District Commissioner of the remote West Suk District in the Rift Valley Province. The warrants were issued at Kapenguria, where Mr. Wilson had his headquarters. He was empowered to issue warrants as he had for the past year held a special appointment as a magistrate.

Later that day, three of the accused were brought to Kapenguria and placed under arrest and charged. The following day, the remaining three were brought to in and arrested and charged. The Kapenguria 6 – Bildad Kaggia, Kung’u Karumba, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, Achieng’ Oneko, Jomo Kenyatta – had been in detention, under Emergency power granted to the Attorney General, since the Emergency was declared the previous month. They had, soon after their arrest, been flown out and confined to nearby Kapenguria cells, at a remote area closed to the public.

Soon after arriving in Kenya the new governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, had declared a State of Emergency on October 20, 1952. Beginning on the same day, colonial security forces launched Operation Jock Scott in which a hundred African political leaders, including Kenyatta, his Kapenguria comrades, and eight thousand others were arrested to remove the leadership of what was now widely called Mau Mau.

The location of the trial, much contested, with many legal moves it to move it from here, was not happentance either. Kapenguria, in the current West Pokot County, 412 km northwest of Nairobi, was also considered remote as it was far removed from the other populated regions of the country. It also lacked amenities such as telephone and postal service, railway, hotels and the only road leading there was almost nonexistent. Kapenguria was a “closed” area and any one going in and out had to get a government pass, at a time when getting an “African Pass” to enter any town was difficult. It was a cull on public interest and participation.

Jomo Kenyatta, then 60, was the main focus of interest in the Kapenguria 6 trial. He was charged with managing an unlawful society from August 12, 1950 until October 21, 1952, when he was detained, and with being a member of an unlawful society. The society in question was the Mau Mau, which had been proscribed as dangerous to good governance in Kenya by an order issued on October 12, 1950.

The other defendants – Bildad Kaggia, Kung’u Karumba, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, Achieng’ Oneko – had been charged with assisting in management of an unlawful society, and with being members of an unlawful society. All six had been rounded up and arrested and remanded until November 24, 1962. Judge Ainsely Thacker arrived in Kapenguria on the August 24, 1952, driven to the courtroom amidst tight security, and the six accused formally pleaded not guilty. The case continued until December 3, 1952. The defendants were lodged in jail at Kapenguria, a mile away.

Trial began at Kapenguria on December 3, 1952 and continued for a total of 58 days until March 24. The lengthy proceedings were fervid, animated discussions with intense arguments, and not without interruptions and squabbles, none, perhaps, as intriguing as when a one Mr. Pritt – the defending lawyer – was punished for contempt of court because of his remarks. Presently, the courtroom in Kapenguria town was too small to house the Kapenguria 6, their lawyer, guards, national and international press, so a school room at an agricultural college, at the present day Chewoyet High School, two kilometres from the cells, was used.

Judgement on the Kapenguria 6 was delivered on April 8, 1952. Mr. Thacker found the six guilty as charged and sentenced each to seven years imprisonment at hard labour on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. Appeals were lodged with the Supreme Court of Kenya on April 21, and a hearing for the appeals was set for July 1. In total a whopper 183 grounds were raised for all the defendants.

On June 23, through a Gazette notice, Mr. Thacker’s position as acting magistrate to Rift Valley Province was changed to that of Resident Magistrate. It was one of many strange decisions that led some to believe that the government had no case in Kapenguria. That it was was flawed on the ground of jurisdiction. The matter of justice also weighed heavy. On August 17, Mr. Pritt, the defendant lawyer, filed another appeal at the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa on the grounds of jurisdiction. Ultimately though, the appeal was not allowed. Mr. Pritt’s next move was to appeal the case to the Privy Council of England. That did not materialize.

Unsurprisingly, Pritt’s visiting pass was later cancelled in May 1953 and he was deported to UK. After the trial, the six were taken to prison in Lokitaung, near Lodwar, to serve their sentence. At the time they were being moved to Lodwar, Mr Oneko had won an appeal but he was separated from the rest and detained in Manyani Prison, near Voi, 310 kilometres east of Nairobi. In April 1961, Kenyatta was moved to Maralal while the other four detainees remained in Lodwar. In Maralal, Kenyatta stayed in a bigger three-bedroomed house, enjoyed more freedom but was still under house arrest and therefore closely watched. He was released to his house in Gatundu, Kiambu, just outside Nairobi, on August 14, 1961.

Fast forward to 2000, and only 3 of the Kapenguria 6 were alive. These were Achieng’ Oneko, Paul Ngei and Bildad Kaggia who at this time, sadly, were wallowing in poverty. Their former comrades in arms Jomo Kenyatta & Fred Kubai had died while Kung’u Karumba “disappeared” during a business trip to Uganda.

Inside Chewoyet High School, and outside the classroom, nothing sets apart the room that served as the courtroom and adjacent rooms, except the metallic plaque capturing the historic moment. Above of the door of the aging classrooms to the left of the main entrance, used as the courtroom, a memento panel reads: April 8, 1953, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, first president of the republic of Kenya and his five colleagues, Bildad Kaggia, Kung’u Karumba, Fred Kubai, Paul Masaku Ngei and Ramogi Achieng’ Oneko were convicted after a stage managed trial by the British Colonial Government for leading a persistence fight for Kenya’s independence.

On reaching Makutano-Kapenguria Junction it would be of interest to take a quick tour of Chewoyet High School as well as Kapenguria cells, to better appreciate this chapter of Kenya’s history. Chewoyet High School is situated 4.6 km from the Lutheran Church Bendera off A1 Road. Chewoyet High School is also notable as one of two premier government high schools in the North Rift Region in company with Kapsabet High School in Nandi County. Originally known as Rift Valley Junior School, Chewoyet High School, was set up as an agricultural college in the 1940’s.

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Fees paid at the school is determined by the Ministry of Education and is uniform for all Senior Schools; countrywide. Due to operations’ costs disparities National Senior schools may have the highest fees set; followed by Extra-County, County and Sub-County schools in that order.

School Profile & Information

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CHEWOYET BOYS

LocationWEST POKOT

SexBOYS

CategoryREGULAR

ClusterC1

21

STEM

12

Social Sciences

5

Arts & Sports

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