Kwala Secondary School (KWASS) opened in July 2005 as an immediate result of the Secondary Education Development Program (SEDP).

KWASS has thirteen staff members – six teachers, the headmaster, an assistant headmaster, two guards, two cooks, and a bursar – supporting 352 students in Forms One through Four (Forms Three and Four were added in 2006 and 2007, respectively).

KWASS’s students primarily come from Kwala Ward, with some students walking three or four miles each way daily to attend school. Because of Kwala’s remote location, many students attending the school from outside of Kwala Village are forced to rent makeshift housing in the village at a cost of roughly three dollars per month per student (a significant amount for many families).

Subjects include: Mathematics, History, Geography, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Kiswahili, and English. English is the nationally-mandated language of instruction in secondary school. The school is divided into four performance troupes, regardless of Form, in which students direct and perform theater, song, and dance. KWASS also fields a soccer team which participates in inter-school competitions.

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