Nairobi School

Nairobi School
Location
Kitisuru Ward, Westlands Sub-County, Nairobi City County Kenya
Information
Type	National, Public
Motto	To The Uttermost
Established	1902
Sister school	The Kenya High School
Principal	Mr. Caspar Momanyi Maina
Number of students	2000
Campus	Westlands, Nairobi
Color(s)	Blue, yellow, grey and white
Website	https://nairobischool.ac.ke

The Nairobi School is a secondary school in Nairobi, Kenya. It follows the national curriculum, is one of Kenya's 112 national schools and also one of the 18 prestigious Cluster III secondary schools.^[1]

It was founded in 1902 by the British settlers who had made Nairobi their home after the construction of the Uganda Railway. In 1925, Lord Delamere and Sir Edward Grigg, then Governor of Kenya, separated the European Nairobi School into a senior boys' school (Prince of Wales School), a senior girls' school (The Kenya High School) and a junior school (Nairobi Primary School).

In 1931, the boys' secondary school was moved to a 600-acre allotment in the Kabete area (along Sclater's Road, today's Waiyaki Way), leaving the girls behind with the primary school pupils. The original idea for the name of the boys' school was Kabete Boys Secondary School, but the first headmaster, Captain Bertram W. L. Nicholson,[12] thought this to be too clumsy and therefore the name Prince of Wales School , following Kenya's independence, it was renamed Nairobi School in 1965. The school is popularly referred to as 'Patch'.