After months of vacation, hundreds of thousands of primary school leavers will join Ugandan secondary schools on Monday, February 17, 2025, in Senior One. Many will be yearning to join Uganda’s Most Expensive Secondary Schools.
As the selection exercise starts on January 30, the updated fees structures for Uganda’s top schools is expected to come to light.
But looking at the fees structures for as far as the Senior One class of the 2023 Academic Year, parents hoping to send their sons and daughters to the so-called top schools should tighten their belts.
With most schools not in the habit of reducing school fees, parents are expected to part with between Shs1m and Shs4m for just one term in Uganda’s most expensive secondary schools.
And that will only be tuition. Other necessities and functions fees will make the figure a little higher, and secondary education expensive for many in this developing country.
Parents who cannot afford the expensive schools may end up settling for privately owned moderate schools which perform better but keep increasing fees each year as their grades improve.
The rest may have to settle for less expensive government owned Universal Secondary Education (USE) schools where performance may not be as good as in the expensive private schools.
Here is a look at how much each Senior One student paid for first term in Uganda’s Most Expensive Secondary Schools in the previous years:
| School | Fees (Ug Shs) |
| St Mary’s SS Kitende | 3,300,000 |
| Uganda Martyrs SS Namugongo | 3,155,000 |
| Nabisunsa Girls SS | 3,000,000 |
| Trinity College Nabbingo | 2,800,000 |
| Kawempe Muslim SS | 2,680,000 |
| Gayaza High School | 2,600,000 |
| King’s College Budo | 2,553,000 |
| Makerere College School | 2,504,000 |
| Seeta High School | 2,500,000 |
| Namirembe Hillside High School, Gayaza | 2,500,000 |
| Mt St Mary’s Namagunga | 2,480,000 |
| St Joseph SS Naggalama | 2,350,000 |
| St Henry’s College Kitovu | 2,170,000 |
| Gombe SSS | 2,100,000 |
| Ntare School | 2,020,000 |
| Buddo SS | 1,900,000 |
| Iganga SS | 1,800,000 |
| St Elizabeth SS Nkoowe | 1,720,000 |
| Maryhill High School | 1,700,000 |
| St Lawrence Academy | 1,700,000 |
| St Lawrence SS Sonde Namugongo | 1,683,000 |
| Madinah Islamic Secondary School Nsangi | 1,580,000 |
| St Lucia Hill School Namagoma | 1,550,000 |
| St Michael High School Mukono | 1,540,000 |
| St Mark’s College Namagoma | 1,500,000 |
| St Peters Nsambya SS | 1,500,000 |
| Greenlight Islamic School Nansana | 1,295,000 |
| Masaka Secondary School | 1,243,000 |
| Aidan College Ndejje Namasuba | 1,230,000 |
| Munta Royal College Bombo | 1,220,000 |
| Kyadondo SSS Matugga | 1,150,000 |
| Royal Giant High School Mityana | 1,090,000 |
| Sacred Heart SS Mushanga – Sheema | 1,070,000 |
| Salaam Muslim HS Ndese Mukono | 1,070,000 |
| Mityana Modern Secondary School | 1,070,000 |
| Mugwanya Summit College Kyengera | 1,060,000 |
The Pearl Times will keep updating this list and revising the figures as soon as information becomes available to us. (Please feel free to share fees structures via our Whatsapp number).
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