An analysis, by The Pearl Times, of the recently released results for the 2023 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) the best and worst performing schools in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality.
Results obtained by this publication indicate that 1,503 candidates from Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality registered to sit for last year’s PLE papers, a number that is lower than that of the previous year (2022) which stood at 1,624 candidates — but higher than that of the 2020 Covid19 year which stood at 1,451 candidates.
The results indicate that the municipality scored 759 first grades (Division One), which is lower than the previous year (2022) where Bushenyi-Ishaka managed 912 first grades — but fewer candidates at PLE last year than in 2022.
Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality also registered 645 second grades (Division Two), 58 third grades (Division Three), 15 fourth grades (Division Four), 14 failures (Grade U – Ungraded) while 12 candidates who had registered for PLE did not sit their papers.
BUSHENYI-ISHAKA MUNICIPALITY BEST 10 SCHOOLS IN PLE 2023
The Pearl Times ranking of Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality schools is based on schools which achieved the highest number of first grades (Division One scores).
This publication’s editor would like readers to know that there are other formulae that could give different rankings of the same results.
Parental Care Primary School, Ishaka Junior School, Kyeitembe Primary School, Bweranyangi Junior Primary School, and Ryamabengwa Primary School made The Pearl Times top five list of Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality’s best performing schools.
Pearl Junior School, the Municipality’s best school in the 2022 PLE — which was also the second best primary school in the country in the same sitting — came a distant sixth in Bushenyi-Ishaka.
Ishaka Preparatory, St Kagwa Boarding PS, Ruharo PS and Patience PS Kashenyi complete Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality’s top 10, according to The Pearl Times rankings.
| School Name | Div I | Div II | Div III | Div IV | Div U | Div X | Total | Rate (Div 1) | |
| 1 | Parental Care PS | 89 | 1 | 90 | 98.9 | ||||
| 2 | Ishaka Junior | 42 | 1 | 43 | 97.7 | ||||
| 3 | Kyeitembe PS | 24 | 3 | 27 | 88.9 | ||||
| 4 | Bweranyangi Junior PS | 125 | 17 | 142 | 88 | ||||
| 5 | Ryamabengwa PS | 32 | 6 | 38 | 84 | ||||
| 6 | Pearl Junior School | 106 | 22 | 128 | 82.8 | ||||
| 7 | Ishaka Preparatory | 19 | 5 | 24 | 79 | ||||
| 8 | St Kagwa Boarding PS | 142 | 51 | 193 | 73.6 | ||||
| 9 | Ruharo PS | 23 | 10 | 33 | 69.7 | ||||
| 10 | Patience PS Kashenyi | 15 | 11 | 26 | 57.7 | ||||
| 11 | Bushenyi Parents PS | 22 | 17 | 39 | 56.4 | ||||
| 12 | Faith Memorial | 19 | 19 | 38 | 50 | ||||
| 13 | Ngyeya Preparatory PS | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 50 | |||
| 14 | Busy Bee | 12 | 17 | 29 | 41.4 | ||||
| 15 | Ishaka Hospital PS | 12 | 18 | 30 | 40 | ||||
| 16 | Prime Junior | 5 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 29.4 | |||
| 17 | Bunyarigi PS | 20 | 47 | 5 | 1 | 73 | 27.4 | ||
| 18 | Bushenyi Town School | 11 | 45 | 56 | 19.6 | ||||
| 19 | Basajjabalaba PS | 5 | 25 | 2 | 32 | 15.6 | |||
| 20 | Ntungamo PS | 6 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 44 | 13.6 | ||
| 21 | Nyamiko PS | 4 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 11.8 | |
| 22 | Irembezi PS | 5 | 36 | 12 | 1 | 54 | 9.3 | ||
| 23 | Rwatukwire PS | 6 | 64 | 3 | 73 | 8.2 | |||
| 24 | Ishaka Town School | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 6.7 |
| 25 | Kibaare PS | 1 | 13 | 1 | 15 | 6.7 | |||
| 26 | Kashenyi PS | 2 | 31 | 1 | 34 | 5.9 | |||
| 27 | Katungu PS | 1 | 17 | 1 | 19 | 5.3 | |||
| 28 | Rukindo PS | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 4.7 | ||
| 29 | Buramba PS | 1 | 26 | 27 | 3.7 | ||||
| 30 | Kaburengye PS | 0 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 0 | |||
| 31 | Bushenyi Demo PS | 0 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 0 | |||
| 32 | Rwenjeru PS | 0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 0 | ||
| 33 | Kanyamabona PS | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0 | |
| 34 | Nyakatooma II PS | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 0 | |
| 35 | Bushenyi PS | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 0 |
WORST PERFORMING BUSHENYI-ISHAKA MUNICIPALITY SCHOOLS
The municipality’s worst school of the lot of 35 is Bushenyi Primary School where nine (09) out of the 17 candidates failed — were ungraded or simply scored Grade U — and will not proceed to Senior One.
Nyakatooma II Primary School also had three of its 15 candidates fail. Other schools with failures were Ishaka Town School and Nyamiko Primary School. But these two do not appear on The Pearl Times list of worst performing schools because they managed first grade scores — this publication’s yardstick for performance in this analysis.
The Pearl Times ranked six schools — which did not have a single first grade — the worst performing in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality. For these primary schools, the fewer the second grades, the worse the ranking.
From worse to the worst, Kaburengye PS, Bushenyi Demo PS, Rwenjeru PS, Kanyamabona PS, Nyakatooma II PS and Bushenyi PS are at the bottom of the The Pearl Times rankings.
The municipality education office had not received results for Premier Preparatory School and Bushenyi Municipal Primary School by the time this publication filed this report.
You can see our Full Briefing for 2023 PLE Results showing Performance by Grade, Subject and Gender, as well as our coverage on the worrying failure rate HERE and THERE.
The lists of best performing primary schools in previous PLE exams are Here and There.
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