About Us
Welcome to The Great Makini School, where we strive for excellence in education.
Our Promise
Academic Progress
A Makini Learner exceeds previous expectations of what they can achieve academically, whatever their starting point.
Work Readiness
A Makini Learner understands, develops, and models the skills and attributes required for a rewarding and satisfying career.
Confidence
A Makini Learner is confident in their heritage, self-worth, unique voice, and ability to make a positive difference in the world.
Our History
This is a brief highlight of how this school was founded
Makini Schools was founded in February 1978. It was then called the Riara Gardens Academy and began as a nursery school with just 8 children. This was in a colonial bungalow where once lived the founders, the late Dr. Pius Okelo and Dr. Mary Okelo.
The school then organically grew in phases and by 1980 another plot was bought across the Kirichwa River. In 1981, the name was changed to Makini Schools.
In 1996 the high school was opened enrolling 27 boys in Form 1. The following year, it admitted girls. Currently, the school has four campuses: the Ngong Road (mother) campus and the Makini Junior Academy on State House Avenue in Nairobi; Makini Junior School Migosi and Makini School Kibos in Kisumu.
On its 40th anniversary in 2018, the school changed ownership from the Okelo’s and is now under the ADvTECH Group. Our aim is to become a world class Kenyan curriculum school in the region.
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