Moi Kapsowar Girls High School has a very rich historical background.The school is founded on strong Christian principles. It is a public girls’ school sponsored by AIC. The concept of starting a girl school in Kapsowar dates back to the 1930s with coming of the missionaries. The missionaries established Kapsowar Mission hospital and were able to provide refuge to girls who were fleeing FGM and early marriages within the region as from 1939.The girls would The refuge centre; Kaptibin later closed in late 1960’s. The church council of that time borrowed the concept of the refugees centre ‘Kaptibin’ and proposed the start of a girls’ school in 1969. Thanks to the elders church council for leaving a great legacy. During that period 1969-1970 there was already a primary school and a school of boys within the mission centre. The boys were later relocated to Chebara Secondary School. In 1971 the girls’ secondary school was established and enrolled thirty seven girls. The first principal was Barbara Laberty (1972-1973) In 1989 the late president Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi accepted the school to bear his name. The school then became Moi Kapsowar Girls Secondary School. In 2012 the school was elevated to a national school. It is currently called Moi Kapsowar Girls High School. Currently the school is home to about 1593 students drawn from all the 47 counties. It is registered as seven streamed with about fifty one TSC teachers, twelve BOM teachers and forty two members of the non-teaching staff.
The school has been progressing well academically with a mean of 7.734 in the 2023 KCSE from 7.1 in
- The school has permanent
infrastructure though inadequate. It
is well connected to good roads,
water and electricity.
