Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba on Thursday released the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA) results.
“Learners will be required to enter the assessment number and any one of their names as per their registration data for the 2025 KJSEA assessment. The results will be accessed immediately after this session. I hereby declare the 2025 KJSEA examinations officially released,” the CS said.
The results mark the first national assessment at the end of the Junior School cycle under the Competency-Based Education (CBE) system. The 2025 Grade 9 cohort was the pioneer class, having sat the KPSEA in 2022.
Learners were examined across nine learning areas: English; Kiswahili or Kenyan Sign Language; Mathematics; Integrated Science; Agriculture and Nutrition; Social Studies; Religious Education (CRE, IRE or HRE); Creative Arts and Sports; and Pre-Technical Studies.
Ogamba announced that learners, parents, and schools can now access the results online and via SMS.
To check results online, users should visit the Ministry of Education’s selection portal (selection.education.go.ke/my-selections) and enter the learner’s assessment number in the designated field.
The Ministry has also provided an SMS option. To check a learner’s selected schools via SMS, users should send the assessment number to 22263. Each SMS costs Sh30.
Ogamba noted that all candidates who registered for the 2025 KJSEA and the Kenya Intermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA) successfully sat their examinations despite weather-related disruptions in some parts of the country.
“I am happy to report that all the learners who registered and presented themselves for the 2025 KJSEA and KILEA assessments successfully sat the assessments despite a few challenges that were appropriately addressed by our field personnel,” he said.
The CS also confirmed that girls posted stronger results than boys in the 2025 KJSEA. Ogamba said female learners met or exceeded expectations in 10 of the 12 subjects assessed.
He noted that the widest gender gap was in Kiswahili, where girls scored 64.86 per cent compared to 51.4 per cent for boys. Christian Religious Education followed at 59.77 per cent for girls against 48.39 per cent for boys.
“The gap was also notable in English, where girls recorded 52.82 per cent against 48.45 per cent, and in Social Studies at 62.89 per cent versus 54.35 per cent,” he said.
Ogamba expressed concern over performance in Mathematics and Kenyan Sign Language, which recorded competency levels of 32.44 per cent and 22.14 per cent respectively.
