Zasa Comprehensive Schools

Our story

From Zasa Academy to one comprehensive school.

The names on old result slips still say Academy. The school those children walked into is the same ground you visit now in Chepalungu.

1. 2003

   Zasa Academy opens

   The school is founded in Chepalungu as Zasa Academy. It takes children from baby class and kindergarten (nursery) through class one to class eight, the full primary path of the 8-4-4 system. Mr Kenneth Chepkwony joins that first staff, and he is still here.

2. 2010

   A junior school, and the bus

   A second school is opened on the compound: Zasa Junior Academy, at first from baby class to class five, later through to class eight. The original school takes the name Zasa Senior Academy. The two grow independently, owned by Patrick Langat and Wilbert Langat. That same year the school buys the yellow bus that still stands in the yard, lettered Zasa Schools, P.O. Box 295, Bomet, fifty-one seats.

3. 8-4-4 years

   A name Bomet learned to watch

   Through the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, Zasa became one of the most closely watched private schools in the county. Class eight candidates regularly scored above 400 marks and finished among the county leaders. In 2018 Zasa Academy’s mean of 350 placed it on published lists of Bomet’s strongest schools. In 2019 Chepchirchir Rahab of Zasa Academy scored 427, the best candidate in Bomet that year. Brian Kipngeno Cheruiyot of Zasa Junior Academy scored 418. Other centres measured themselves against those names.

4. CBC

   One school again

   When Kenya replaced 8-4-4 with the competency-based curriculum, Zasa Senior Academy was closed. The junior and senior work was brought under one roof and one name: Zasa Comprehensive Schools. Children now move from pre-primary into primary and on through junior school to Grade 9 without leaving the compound. In May 2024 the school offered Tabitha Cherotich Chumbaa a place through Grade 9. Public thanks named Kipngeno Langat Wilbert for that sponsorship.

5. Old boys and girls

   What the years produced

   Those class eight rooms sent people out. Some entered politics. Some work in senior companies, including names such as Microsoft and the World Bank. Many went on to study and to live abroad. The record is still being written in Chepalungu, under one school and one curriculum.

Public record

The county still remembers those 400s.

In the 8-4-4 years Zasa was among the private schools Bomet watched on KCPE day. Many candidates scored above 400. The figures below are the ones that appeared in published county lists. Later KPSEA and KJSEA series will be added when the office has the official slips.

Some websites later pasted the 2019 table under a 2021 heading. We keep those names as 2019. The school’s own full set of 400-plus candidates from the 8-4-4 years will be listed here as the office supplies the slips.