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Our name, St. Francis girls high school

We are named after patron saint of the congregation of the Franciscan missionary sisters for Africa (FMSA) who found the school as part of their evangelistic mission in Mang’u a typical Kenyan rural area.

The sisters were expressing their love and concern for the poor rural Kenyan girl child. Their vision for her became our mission.

St Francis School started as a boarding primary school for girls in 1944. It was started by the Franciscan missionary sisters In 1964 the sisters started a form 1 harambee class which gradually replaced the intermediate primary school.

In 1965, the school received a grant in aid for that year’s form 1 class and since then it continued to get government grants like any other public school until 1987 when all grants from the ministry of education were stopped. Parents have continued to meet all the financial obligations that the ministry used to take care of.


Early development
Transforming the old intermediate school to a secondary school inevitably brought many problems e.g. lack of proper physical facilities for secondary expansion.

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Academics and Sports

 

Co - CURRICULUM:
In co- curriculum activities, OUT students have continued to perform well in games. This year, 2011 our students went up t-o Pr-ovincial levels in Drama and Music Athletics, Sports and Science Congress.

  • Our Hockey, basket Ball, volly ball, bad minton Teams reached the Provincial finals. Lawn tennis was the 3rd best team in the province.
  • Our swimming team represented the Central Province at the National Championship at Alliance high school in 2011 although we have no swimming pool.
  • We also sent teams to the Provincial Science Congress and Athletics Championships as from May.
  • This year, our school was the 2nd Best Nationally in the Annual German Cultural Festival at Shimo Latewa Coast province.

It is our hope that the school win continue to do well both academically and in co- curriculum activities.
To sum up, I would like to thank:
1 Ministry of Education: for the support and adequate provision of qualified teachers t-o the school.
2 For Bursaries to our needy students through the Constituency Bursary Fund.

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Current development plan (s):

  • The board of governors has been addressing itself to the problems of the expansion of this school to 3 stream because of the current pressure for form 1 places. All the board and the staff facilities across the road need to be accommodated on mang’u compound. An estimated sum of ksh 46million would be required to have the school the old mang’u  h. School compound and to rehabilitate some of the old buildings put up in the 1920s by the holy ghost fathers.
  • All members of the st. Francis community are therefore exhorted to strive and sustain st. Francis as a centre of academic excellence now and in the years to come