Our motto
We do our best and God does the rest.
Our vision Madaraka Comprehensive School · Keri Road, Lang'ata
Toprovideanindependent,
well-disciplinedandknowledgeable
childforthefuture.
Madaraka Comprehensive School is a public school on Keri Road, in the heart of Madaraka Estate, built in 1973 in the same years as the estate itself. We teach Grade 1 to Grade 9 on one compound — primary and junior school together — with a teacher trained and registered by the Teachers Service Commission in front of every class, in buildings renovated in 2024.
1973Built alongside the estate, teaching ever since
1–9Primary and junior school, on one compound
TSCEvery teacher trained and registered
Who we are
A government school in the middle of Madaraka Estate.
Madaraka Comprehensive School is a mixed day school — boys and girls, no boarding — registered with the Ministry of Education and run with a Board of Management and a parents' association. It sits on Keri Road, a few minutes from the Madaraka roundabout, on the ground between Nairobi West and Lang'ata Road.
Teaching
Taught by people who trained for it.
Every teacher on this staff is trained and employed by the Teachers Service Commission: a qualified professional in front of every class, on the national payroll and answerable to a national standard.
Madaraka is also a registered examination centre, so learners sit their national assessments on their own compound rather than travelling to another school for them.
What guides us
Our motto, vision and mission.
The three statements this school is run by: what we say to each other every morning, where we are taking our learners, and how we intend to get them there.
Our vision
To provide an independent, well-disciplined and knowledgeable child for the future.
Our mission
To provide a challenging experience which will enable our pupils to become responsible, successful citizens in the future.
MadarakaNoun · Kiswahili
Self-governance. Self-rule. The responsibility a person carries for themselves. Kenya marks it on the first of June.
Where the name comes from
The estate was named for it in 1973. So was the school.
Madaraka Estate opened on 1 June 1973 — Madaraka Day — built by the City Council of Nairobi for families who worked in the city. The school went up alongside it, and it has been teaching ever since.
The name has turned out to be a fair description of the job. We are trying to raise children who can govern themselves: who read closely, argue honestly, finish what they start, and can be trusted with something before anyone is watching.
1973Madaraka Estate opened on Madaraka Day; the school followed
9Grades taught, Grade 1 through junior school Grade 9
KES 0Tuition, under Kenya's free primary education policy
100%Of the teaching staff trained and TSC-employed
Learning
Nine years, on one compound, under one curriculum.
Kenya's Competency-Based Education runs a child from Grade 1 to Grade 9 before senior school, and junior school sits inside the primary school rather than somewhere else. Here is the whole path, and where we are on it.
Grades 1–3
Lower primary
Reading, number and the habit of school. Literacy in English and Kiswahili, mathematics, environmental activities, creative arts and movement.
Grades 4–6
Upper primary
Subjects separate out — mathematics, English, Kiswahili, science and technology, social studies, agriculture, creative arts and religious education.
KPSEA at Grade 6
Grades 7–9
Junior school
Nine learning areas, the same for every learner in the country — no pathway choices yet, and a lighter week than before at thirty-five lessons.
KJSEA at Grade 9
Grade 10 onward
Senior school
Learners leave us for a senior school placed on their Grade 9 result, choosing STEM, Social Sciences, or Arts & Sports Science.
Junior school — Grades 7, 8 and 9 — is taught here, on the same compound as the
primary classes, so a child moves up without moving school.
Beyond the timetable
Connected before most schools in this city.
Madaraka was among the first Nairobi schools joined to KENET's Nairobi Schools Fibre Connectivity Project — it heads the published schedule of connected schools. Digital literacy is a learning area in its own right under the national curriculum, and a school that already has a line into it starts from further along than one that does not.
Madaraka was among the first Nairobi schools connected under KENET's Nairobi
Schools Fibre Connectivity Project.
No. 1On the list
Life at school
The day does not stop at the last lesson.
Games on the field, choir and drama, scouts, the reading corner, and a hot lunch for the learners on the feeding programme. Tap any photograph to open it.
The school today
Rebuilt, and still being rebuilt.
The buildings are the estate's own age and they have needed the work. Renovation ran through the constituency development fund in 2019, and in 2024 the school was given a full renovation and a new administration block.
The block on the compound is two storeys, concrete under iron sheets, as it has been since the estate was built. The 2024 works gave it a full renovation and a new administration block.
Cultural Day
The day the quadrangle fills up.
Cultural Day is held on the paving in front of the classroom blocks. Pupils perform in the dress of the communities they come from, a hide drum is carried on a strap and played with sticks, and the teachers, the parents and the guests dance as well.
Ask the school
The office closes at five. This doesn't.
Our assistant answers from the school's own records — how to enrol a child, what to bring, which grades we teach, where we are and when the office is open. If it does not know, it says so and takes your number for the office.
The chat is not available at the moment. Please call the office on 020 785 0022.