{"id":220211,"date":"2026-01-12T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-low-turnout-marks-first-day-of-grade-ten-admissions-in-kisii-and-nyamira-counties\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:40:58","slug":"kenya-low-turnout-marks-first-day-of-grade-ten-admissions-in-kisii-and-nyamira-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-low-turnout-marks-first-day-of-grade-ten-admissions-in-kisii-and-nyamira-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Low Turnout Marks First Day of Grade Ten Admissions in Kisii and Nyamira Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Kisii \u2014 The first day of grade ten admissions for students transitioning to senior secondary schools saw low turnout in many schools across Kisii and Nyamira counties, a departure from previous years when schools would be crowded with parents and learners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">At Kisii School, only 300 students had reported by mid-morning, although the school expects to admit about 820 students allocated by the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Neighboring Kereri Girls&#8217; School received a relatively higher number of students,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120528.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisii \u2014 The first day of grade ten admissions for students transitioning to senior secondary schools saw low turnout in many schools across Kisii and Nyamira counties, a departure from previous years when schools would be crowded with parents and learners. At Kisii School, only 300 students had reported by mid-morning, although the school expects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":220212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[53394,258,256,6102,7165,6138,4688,430,9126,9877,257,30235,254,7740,13690],"class_list":["post-220211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-admissions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-counties","tag-day","tag-grade","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kisii","tag-marks","tag-news","tag-nyamira","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ten","tag-turnout"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}