The Kenya High School is a public girls' high school located on Mandera Road in the upmarket Kileleshwa suburb of Westlands Sub-County in Kenya's capital city, Nairobi. The school, which follows the national curriculum, is one of Kenya's 112 national schools and also one of the 18 prestigious Cluster III secondary schools. Located on a 150-acre campus some six Km from the Central Business District, the institution caters for 1500+ students who attend Forms 1-4 (= US grades 9-12) in seven streams, at the end of which the students sit for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. It is primarily a boarding school and accepts day-scholars on a case-by-case basis. The Kenya High School consistently performs well in national secondary exams, and has enforced a proper code of conduct to be followed by all. Background and History The Kenya High School, whose motto is Servire est Regnare (To Serve is To Reign), was conceptualised in the English public school tradition. It has its beginnings in 1910 when a co-educational school called the European Nairobi School started in buildings originally designed for police barracks, on Nairobi Hill, the location of the present-day Nairobi Primary School. About 130 boarders were accommodated in new buildings of timber and iron sheets two miles away, by the old Buller’s camp next to Nairobi Club. 1910 is considered the birth year of present day Kenya High School. In 1931 the boys were separated from the girls and the boys' school was moved to the Kabete area (along Sclater’s Road, today's Waiyaki Way). It was named Prince of Wales School (now Nairobi School) and has always been referred to as The Kenya High School's brother school, as the two schools have maintained a cordial relationship over the years by inviting each other to their school events and sports galas. In 1935, the school was renamed The European Girls' Secondary School and had its first Headmistress, Miss Kerby, appointed. In 1939, the school got its current name, The Kenya High School. The first ethnic African girl to be admitted in 1961 was Ann Mithamo. In 1974 the school was taken over by the government and it began to admit more African pupils and teachers. Pamela Ogot joined the faculty in May 1965 as the first ethnic African teacher, while the first ethnic African Headmistress, Mrs Rose Kariuki, served from January to July 1977, then handed over