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Asumbi Girls National School

is situated in Gem Kajulu Location of Rangwe Sub-County (Division), Homabay County and sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Homabay. It is approximately 20Kms from Homabay town to the North West. It stands on a 25 acre piece of land. In 1913, the Mill Hill Fathers settled at Asumbi led by Rev. Fr. Philip Scheffer. They built a Catholic Mission there and provided religious as well as academic training to the local people. Today, what started as a small Mission Station in a rural community is a complex consisting of several educational and religious institutions of their own kind in the region.

Asumbi Girls High School was founded by the Mill Hill Missionary Sisters of St. Joseph in March 1936, first as a Catholic Sponsored Primary Boarding School. The school was started mainly to give knowledge in reading, writing and numeracy. This knowledge gained would assist the learners to read the Bible and also to improve their nutrition through informed agricultural practices. The Missionaries had introduced high value nutrition crops like groundnuts, beans and bananas. It was their desire that the local people produced them to improve their nutritional status.

History

Earlier on 6th January, 1936, Sr. Francis Theresa had started a teacher training Centre at Asumbi with two students with the aim of producing teachers who would in turn teach the Primary School and also start other schools in the area. The Centre was known as Asumbi Central School and was founded within the primary school compound. Two years later, it became Asumbi Cardinal Vaughan Teachers Training Centre for women. The purpose of this was to empower women to become teachers so as to reinforce the effort of the missionaries in educating girls in the region. In the same year the center was split into two, men and women training centers.
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The first form one students of Asumbi Girls National School were therefore admitted in 1965 and the Primary Boarding School was later phased out and moved to a new site in 1969. During this time the first A-Level students were admitted until 1989 when A-Level was phased out. Both Science and Art subjects were offered at that time.

In 1999, the Ministry of Education through the Provincial Education by then approved the school four streamed. Thereafter in 2019, the school was registered as a 10 streamed. The school has currently has a population of 2,720 students, 47 TSC teachers, 35 BOM teachers and 45 support staff.
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The High School

In 1941, a section of the primary school was put aside to accommodate the newly created women teachers training centre. However, on 22nn March 1962, the two centres were re-registered by the Chief Education Officer and in the following year on 7th November, a meeting was held in the Education Secretary’s office then in the Catholic Mission in Kisumu to discuss the arrangements on how to the two training centres into one training college, to be known as Asumbi Teachers Training College.

In January 1964, the two teachers training centres were amalgamated into one and the womens training centre was moved to join the men’s teachers training centre, to give way to the newly established girls secondary school, marking the birth of Asumbi Girls National School.
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ASUMBI GIRLS NATIONAL SCHOOL

From 1936, Educating Girls!

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Our Commitment

  • Our Mission
  • Our Vision
  • Our Values

To provide an academic, spiritual and social environment that empowers learners to adapt to the dynamic society through quality teaching and maximum utilization of resources for optimum acquisition and application of knowledge and skills

To be the best performing girls school nationally

We believe in hard work guided by a God-fearing spirit, embracing responsibility and teamwork in all we do. Through discipline, confidence, and unwavering integrity, we pursue every goal with optimism, knowing excellence is built on strong moral foundations.

 
 
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