Pangani Girls School

The year was 1932, in pre-independent Kenya. At the time it was named the Duchess of Gloucester School, named after the late Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. At the time, the school had a purely Asian population, a community that lives, to this day, around the Ngara, Pangani area in Nairobi… read more. The school offered what was then the Cambridge and Higher Cambridge School Certificate; today’s equivalent of ‘O’ and ‘A’ level education.
After Independence in 1963, the school was renamed; Pangani Girls High School and enrolment of African students steadily began. It was initially a girl’s day school, but was converted to a boarding school in 1986. At the time it was then considered a provincial school.