One of the biggest shocks from the latest Primary Leaving Examinations results has rocked some of Kampala’s most elite schools, while Seeta Junior School, owned by State Minister for Higher Education Dr Chrysostom Muyingo, walked away with a jaw-dropping victory.
As once-untouchable schools like Kabojja Junior School, Greenhill Academy, Kampala Parents School, and Hillside Nursery and Primary School failed to produce a single pupil with an aggregate of four, Seeta Junior Mukono registered a staggering 56 fours.
For years, Greenhill, Kabojja, Kampala Parents, and Hillside have been synonymous with academic excellence. Parents paid premium fees expecting premium results. But this year, the numbers told a different story.
At Kabojja Junior School, the disappointment was particularly sharp. A teacher who spoke on condition of anonymity said staff were stunned.
“When we received the results, we could not believe it. We had at least 10 pupils we were sure would score aggregate four. Our best candidates ended up with five,” the teacher said.
The shock is deeper considering that in 2024 alone, Kabojja had five pupils with aggregate four.
Parents are not hiding their frustration. One parent whose child scored an aggregate of seven said plans are underway to petition the Ministry of Education and UNEB.
“I suspect our pupils were not fairly marked or graded. Something does not add up,” the parent said.
Greenhill Academy did no better. Both its Buwate and Kibuli campuses failed to register even one aggregate four, an outcome that has left parents and teachers quietly questioning what went wrong.
Kampala Parents School in Naguru also joined the list of disappointments. The school did not register a single four this year, after managing just one last year.
Hillside Nursery and Primary School, once a powerhouse of top grades, continued its slide. For the second year running, Hillside produced no aggregate fours. This is a dramatic fall for a school that in 2022 alone produced 99 pupils with aggregate four. Even more alarming, Hillside registered two pupils in division three for the first time in more than five years.
As these schools struggle to explain the results, Seeta Junior School Mukono is celebrating what many are calling its best performance ever.
The school posted 56 aggregate fours from the results released last week, up from 36 in 2024. Even more impressive, all 140 candidates passed in division one, with the worst-performing pupil scoring an aggregate of eight.
The contrast could not be sharper.
While parents at some of Kampala’s most expensive schools count losses and demand answers, Seeta Junior’s results have reignited debate about teaching methods, marking standards, and whether Uganda’s traditional “elite schools” are losing their edge.
For now, the message from this year’s PLE results is blunt and unforgiving. Big names no longer guarantee top grades. And in 2025, Seeta Junior has stolen the spotlight.
