Yesterday, the Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni, released the 2025 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results. However, the Ministry barred schools from publishing learners’ results in the media.
According to the results, the best candidate was a male pupil from Bright Horizon Primary School in Arua Municipality, who scored four aggregates.
He was followed by another male candidate from Namirembe Board School in Budaka District, while five candidates from St. Bernadette Nakibizzi Primary School in Buikwe District followed. Daily Star Uganda brings you a list of the schools that produced the best candidates in the country, in chronological order.
A total of 817,883 candidates from 15,388 examination centres registered for the 2025 PLE, compared to 797,444 candidates in 2024. Of these, 522,036 candidates from 11,525 centres were beneficiaries of the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme, while 295,847 candidates from 3,863 centres were non-UPE.
Gender analysis for 2025 shows that 389,469 boys were registered compared to 428,324 girls, indicating that more girls than boys completed the primary education cycle—a trend observed in recent years.
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) also registered 3,636 learners with special needs across various categories, including the blind, the deaf, the physically handicapped, and learners with dyslexia, up from 3,328 in 2024.
According to the results, 48,220 boys attained First Grade, 186,638 attained Second Grade, 77,453 attained Third Grade, while 37,658 attained Fourth Grade.
