Jomo Kenyatta High School

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Jomo Kenyatta High School is located in Bahati Division, Nakuru District, Rift Valley Province in Kenya. Initially this school was known as Ngwataniro Secondary School, but later renamed after Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta. It was pioneered by among others the late Kihika Kimani. It is scenically located facing the famous Menengai Crater on the rise towards the Kenyan Eastern Highlands, in the Great Rift Valley. In the 1990s it was one of the largest mixed schools in the province with a population of more than 1000 students at any given time. By that time, in national ranking it was a District School.

The current principal, Mr. J B. Gachanja is among the longest serving principals of the institution having started working there in 1994. Now is a provincial school, having risen from district category in 2000 after a good performance the previous year.