The schools assessed did not report learners with disabilities by sex. Without that data, the Commission says, the education system cannot see whether girls and boys with disabilities are placed and supported equally.

The law gives every learner with a disability the right to assessment and appropriate placement, and requires an assessment centre in every county. NGEC found Grade 10 learners arriving without the reports that should guide their support.

Two special schools reported 487 learners with disabilities and five mainstream schools 23 between them. The Commission found expertise concentrated where space is shortest, and willing mainstream schools without trained teachers or accessible facilities.

Commission assessment of seven senior schools in Nairobi and Kiambu found placements that did not match school capacity, special schools overstretched and mainstream schools admitting learners with disabilities without trained teachers or accessible facilities.