Marion Preparatory School, Kahawa West

Marion Preparatory School is the Nairobi campus of the Marion Schools, in Kahawa West Estate off Kamiti Road. Rev. Hannah Mbugua and her husband, the late Mayor Samuel Mbugua, opened it in January 1983 as a nursery school in a single council house when the new Kahawa West estate was built, wanting an affordable private school for families in the east of the city. One pupil reported on the first day and there were 30 by the end of the term. It grew into a preparatory school whose candidates twice topped the national KCPE, in 1998 and 2010, and it now teaches the Competency Based Curriculum through pre-primary, primary and junior school. The school welcomes learners with special educational needs. Its sister campus, Marion Farmhouse, opened in Kiambu County in 2000.