Education Minister Janet Museveni.
The selection exercise for Senior One Class of 2026 ends today. The Senior One placement exercise began on February 12, 2026, at UMA Grounds, Lugogo, from 8 AM to 5 PM, and will end today Friday, February 13, 2025.
By the end of the exercise, hundreds of thousands of 2025 PLE candidates will be have been placed in secondary schools nationwide following last week’s release of Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results.
Thereafter, Senior One students will report to schools to join continuing students who have been at their respective education institutions since February 10.
The first term for the senior one students starts on Monday, March 2, 2026.
Worth noting is that most top schools slightly reduced their cutoffs or maintained them compared to last year due to the poor performance in PLE 2025.
Now, as the selection exercise for Senior One Class of 2026 ends today, we take a look at the 2026 Cut Off points for Uganda’s top schools:
| School | Cutoff Pts (M) | Cutoff Pts (F) |
| King’s College Budo | 5 | 5 |
| Uganda Martyrs SS Namugongo | 5 | 5 |
| St Mary’s College Kisubi | 6 | |
| Ntare School | 6 | |
| St Julian Gayaza | 6 | 7 |
| Seeta HS Main | 6 | 6 |
| Namilyango College | 7 | |
| St Mary’s SS Kitende | 7 | 7 |
| Makerere College | 7 | 8 |
| Ndejje SSS | 7 | 8 |
| St Henry’s College Kitovu | 7 | |
| Mbarara High School | 7 | |
| Mengo Senior School | 7 | 7 |
| Seeta HS Green Campus | 7 | 7 |
| Seeta HS Mbalala Campus | 7 | 7 |
| Kitende SS | 8 | 9 |
| Kibuli SS | 8 | 9 |
| Kawempe Muslim SS | 8 | 8 |
| Seeta A-level Campus | 9 | 9 |
| St Mary’s College Rushoroza | 9 | 9 |
| Lubiri SS | 9 | 9 |
| Kigezi High School | 9 | 10 |
| Elite HS Entebbe | 10 | 10 |
| Nyakasura School | 10 | 11 |
| St Mark’s College Namagoma | 10 | 10 |
| Kira College Butiki | 10 | |
| Bwera SS | 10 | 10 |
| Masaka SS | 10 | 11 |
| Entebbe SSS | 11 | 12 |
| Merryland HS | 11 | 11 |
| Nganwa High School | 11 | |
| Muntuyera HS Kitunga | 11 | |
| St Joseph’s College Layibi | 11 | |
| Ngora HS | 11 | 12 |
| St Joseph of Nazareth | 11 | 11 |
| Busoga College Mwiri | 11 | |
| St Peter’s College Tororo | 12 | |
| Mt St Mary’s Namagunga | 6 | |
| Sacred Heart SS Gulu | 5 | |
| Maryhill High School | 6 | |
| Gayaza High School | 5 | |
| Immaculate Heart Girls SS Nyakibare | 7 | |
| Trinity College Nabbingo | 7 | |
| Nabisunsa Girls School | 8 | |
| Bweranyangi Girls SS | 8 | |
| Kyeizooba Girls SS | 9 | |
| Tororo Girls’ School | 9 | |
| Rubaga Girls SS | 12 |
You can also check out Uganda’s Best O-level Schools Senior One Students you could Consider as Top Choices in 2026 Here, There and Over There.
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