Mathari Primary School

This public primary school stands inside the grounds of Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya's main psychiatric hospital, which also gives the Hospital ward its name. It is an ordinary mixed day school open to the surrounding area, including the Mathare valley villages below the hospital, and has a calmer, greener setting than most schools in the ward. The 2007 ministry count listed roughly 1,030 pupils and 24 teachers in 25 classrooms. It has early-years classes and the primary grades, uses the Competency Based Curriculum and charges no tuition fees.