Former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family is among Kenya’s wealthiest, with business interests spanning nearly every sector of the economy — including education. One of their most prized assets is Peponi School, an elite private institution ranked among the most expensive in the country.
Situated along the Thika Superhighway on the Kenyatta-owned Gicheha Farm in Ruiru, Peponi offers the IGCSE curriculum and has educated some of Kenya’s most prominent children, including Muhoho Kenyatta and Royal Media Services MD Wachira Waruru’s son.
The fees, however, are jaw-dropping. New students pay a one-time admission fee of KSh 645,000. Full boarders are then charged KSh 983,400 per term, weekly boarders KSh 928,725, and day scholars KSh 696,275. With three terms in a year, this amounts to roughly KSh 2.9 million for boarders, KSh 2.7 million for weekly boarders, and KSh 2 million for day scholars.
The school enforces a strict payment policy — fees must be cleared by the first day of term, with late payments attracting a 3% monthly cumulative surcharge. Defaulters risk having their children sent home after 14 days.
Peponi stands as a status symbol in Kenya’s education system — a school where only the country’s wealthiest families can afford to enroll their children.
