JAMHURI HIGH SCHOOL

 HISTORY

JAMHURI HIGH SCHOOL, NAIROBI.

HISTORY

Jamhuri High School, (better known as Duke of Gloucester Secondary Schools in the colonial days), had its beginning as a nursery school in 1904 on what was then White House Road (presently Haile Selasie Avenue) near the Nairobi Railway Station.  In 1928, it was relocated and expanded to become  the government Indian elementary School in  Ngara  and catered for less than one hundred students.  In 1953, during colonial rule the school was renamed ‘Duke of Gloucester Secondary School’.  This was in honour of the Duke who took a keen interest in promoting the school and who presided over the opening of the swimming pool in 1962.  a hostel was introduced in 1961 to accommodate sixty students and in 1969, after independence, the school was renamed Jamhuri High School.

“JAMHURI” is a Kiswahili word meaning Republic.  Presently, the school has a student population of over a thousand and a strong  tutoring staff over sixty qualified teachers.

Throughout the years the school has managed to sustain a high calibre of academic standards and many students have benefited from this institution and further graduated in various successful field as chemists, doctors, lawyers, judges and prominent businessmen.  Amongst Jamhuri High School’s many eminent past students were two of Kenya’s  distinguished legislators, the late Madan and the former Chief Justice, Majid Cockar.

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