Shaping Tomorrow’s Thinkers!
Are you a bright, ambitious student from an economically marginalised background? Are you ready to unlock your potential and transform your future?
The MPESA Foundation Academy offers a life-changing, fully-funded scholarship designed just for you!
Join our 2026 academic year and experience a world-class education delivered through innovative, tech-savvy methods.
Develop into a holistic leader equipped with skills in technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, arts, sports, and music—ready to shape the future.
Every admission cycle targets learners sitting their National examinations. Successful applicants will join the Academy in January of the subsequent year a four-year residential (boarding) programme to study the International Baccalaureate Curriculum in two phases of two years of the Middle Years Programme followed by two years of the Diploma Programme. Applicants must be at least 13 and not more than 15 years of age at the time they are expected to join the Academy. Refugee students who are duly registered are encouraged to apply.
The Academy is also an inclusive learning environment, and students with SEND (Special Education Needs & Disability) are encouraged to apply.
About us
The M-PESA Foundation Academy is a state of the art, co-educational high school institution currently offering International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum. The Academy intends to introduce the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), Senior Secondary in the year 2026; and it is well equipped to offer all the three CBC pathways namely:
1) Arts and Sports science
2) Social Sciences
3) Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Driven by leadership, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation, the Academy serves talented but economically disadvantaged students with demonstrated leadership potential.
The school is located in Thika West Sub- County, Kiambu County and it admits learners from all the 47 counties in Kenya on full high school scholarship.
Vision
To develop transformational leaders who strive for excellence and success for themselves, their communities and their world.
Mission
As a leadership development institution, we will deliver an innovative world class education through a holistic curriculum so that our learners are principled, reflective and open-minded. Through our programmes, we will nurture active, compassionate and successful life-long learners.
Academics
The Academy will offer each of the CBC pathways with an emphasis on practical skills, critical thinking and real world problem solving. Students will be assessed through continous assessment tests, practical projects and prepare them for national exams, that will prepare them for tertiary education, vocation training or entry into the job market.
Through the careers department, the students are guided on their pathways and exposed to a wide range of career choices to make.
Student Life and Pastoral Care
The Student Life Department caters for students’ life outside the teaching curriculum. Their physical and psychological well-being is guaranteed. A highly nutritious diet is provided to all learners. We offer learners opportunities to nurture their leadership skills and grow their talents. Students are attached to internal and external mentors who prepare them for life after school. Child safeguarding and protection procedures have been put in place to protect learners from harm within and outside of the Academy.
Tertiary Education Support
We support the transition of the Academy’s graduates by equipping them with the necessary skills that empower them to create a better tomorrow by offering a bespoke life skills pre-university curriculum, that supports our learners for life after high school and life in general.
