Mathare North Primary School

This public primary school stands in Area II of Mathare North, a crowded estate of tenement blocks on the north side of Outer Ring Road. It is owned by the government and was originally run by the Nairobi City Council, and it remains one of the main free schools for the estate's children. Classes cover pre-primary and the primary grades under the Competency Based Curriculum, with junior school learners now also on site. The school is mixed and day only. Because the estate is so densely built, the compound is small for its numbers, and parents usually find it by asking for Area II rather than by street name.