St Savio emerges top to redeem past glory

St Savio Kisubi Primary School emerged the best in this year’s PLE results, redeeming its past

Pupils at St Savio primary school Courtesy photo

Kampala. 
St Savio Kisubi Primary School emerged the best in this year’s PLE results, redeeming its past glory as one of Uganda’s best performing primary schools.

The school has in the last five years been edged out of the 10 top slots.
PLE results released on Thursday show St Savio at top position after all its 123 candidates passed in Division One. The school dislodged Fairways Primary School, Kireka which was number one last year.

Other schools which made to the top 10 include Hormisdallen Mixed, Bright Grammar and Victory Learning Centre. All these are found in Masaka Municipality.

The ranking is based on each school’s performance in Division One, in comparison to the total number of candidates who sat examinations at the school.

According to Mr Isa Matovu, an educationist, many old academic giants will continue to lose ground if they don’t secure better facilities and highly motivated staff as is the case in most private schools nowadays.

Some of the surprises among top 10 included; Kitooro Hill View in Lwengo District and St Cecilia in Kabale, who are appearing for the first time among the top 10.

Other best performing schools that made it to the top 10 include Margherita Primary School, Kasese, Nabbunga Fountain of Education, Kakai, Pearl Junior Primary School, Bushenyi and Bright Future Primary School Gayaza.

Apart from Namilyago Junior Boys ,Namagunga P/S ,Namilyango Girls and Uganda Martyrs Primary School Masaka, no other notable traditional schools featured among the top 50 performers of 2014. Other traditional giants, including Kampala Parents Schools, City Parents, St. Teresa P/S –Namagunga, Green Hill P/S and Silver Spoon P/S, dropped to places outside the top 50.

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Makindye Junior School which took which took the first top position in 2010, dropped to the 370th position while King Fahad Islamic P/S-Kampala which took the second position in 2009, rested in the 461st position .Lypa Integrated P/S which was in third place in 2012 was pushed down to the 191st position .

Unlike in the previous years , this time round Uneb computed results of pupils under the government’s free education programme, with only 25,517 scoring first grades ,compared to 35,439 in private or non-UPE schools. Majority of the UPE beneficiaries passed in Division Two and Division Three, totaling to 190,634 and 112,384 respectively.

Before the liberalization of the education sector in early 1990s, schools like Buganda Road, Bat Valley, Old Kampala and Nakasero, East Kololo, Shimon Demonstration and Kibuli Demonstration primary schools were top performers, but due to limited funding, poor teacher remuneration and introduction of automatic promotion of pupils, quality of education declined and many parents started shifting their children to private schools to seek better academic standards.

PLE trends since 2009 
PLE 2014 results 
St Savio Kisubi
Hormisdallen, Kampala
Bright Grammar, Masaka
Victory Learning, Masaka 
Kitooro Hill View, Lwengo
PLE 2013 results 
Fairways, Kireka 
Kabojja Junior Sch 
St Cecilia Boarding, Rakai
Rwentobo Prep, Ntungamo
Kenteeko, Isingiro 
PLE 2012 results 
Hillside, Naalya 
KY, Masaka 
Lypa Intergrated, Rubindi 
Green Circle, Fortportal 
Victory Learning, Masaka
PLE 2011 results 
Bright Grammer Pri Sch 
Lohana Academy 
Kampala Parents Sch 
Sir Apollo, Nakasero 
Uganda Kids, Adjuman
PLE 2010 results 
Bright Grammar 
Hormisdallen, Kirinya 
Kihihi Progressive 
Pearl Junior Sch 
Villa Road
PLE 2009 results 
Makindye Junior Sch 
King Fahad Islamic 
Hope Children’s Centre 
Blessed Valley 
St Savio Kisubi