Nairobi, Jan. 9 -- The proportion of candidates who scored C- and above in the newly released Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination exceeded half of all tested candidates for the first time in a decade, reversing a long-standing trend of below-average performance under the 8-4-4 system.

Results released on Friday by Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Julius Ogamba show that 507,131 candidates, or 51.1 percent of the 993,226 who sat the 2025 examination, attained a C- or better grade nationwide.

This outcome breaks a pattern observed consistently since 2016, when candidates scoring D+ and below formed the majority in successive KCSE examination cycles.

Candidates who scored D+ and below totalled 486,095, or 48.9 perc...