Coordinates: 0°10′10″S 36°07′50″E / 0.169501°S 36.130598°E / -0.169501; 36.130598 Jomo Kenyatta High School is located in Bahati Division, Nakuru District, Rift Valley Province in Kenya. Initially this school was known as Ngwataniro Secondary School, but later renamed after Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta. It was pioneered by among others the late Kihika Kimani. It is scenically located facing the famous Menengai Crater on the rise towards the Kenyan Eastern Highlands, in the Great Rift Valley. In the 1990s it was one of the largest mixed schools in the province with a population of more than 1000 students at any given time. By that time, in national ranking it was a District School. Previous headmasters include Gill Singh, Joseph Njoroge and Joseph B. Gachanja. The latter having retired in 2008 after achieving the mandatory 55 years of age stipulated by the Teachers' Service Commission of Kenya.
Nakuru District boasts such schools as Lamurdiac- established by the Late Kihika Kimani.
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