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# 2021 impact assessment: better exam results in ARES schools
- URL: https://ares.sheql.org/2021-ares-impact-assessment/
- Published: 2021-03-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-07T06:27:58.000Z
- Description: Principals, teachers and students from 11 Ol Pejeta community schools reported on what ARES has changed.
- Author: ARES Staff
- Tags: Research, Impact, Ol Pejeta

In February 2021, enumerators from Ol Pejeta's three community zones surveyed 11 of the 24 schools that had received ARES. They heard from 185 people: 11 principals, 43 teachers and 131 students.

## Principals

- **88%** said ARES had contributed to better KCSE results. The combined school mean rose from 3.157 in 2017 to 3.225 in 2018 and 3.297 in 2019.
- Half of the schools with ARES introduced Computer Studies as an examinable subject.
- **63%** employed a Computer Studies teacher through the Teachers Service Commission, which created new jobs.
- **75%** strongly agreed that school administration had become more efficient, and many schools bought management software of their own.
- Half had bought additional computers or projectors to add to what ARES provided.

## Teachers

- **84%** use ICT to plan and deliver lessons, most often with projectors, notebooks and phones.
- **94%** of those trained said the training changed how they teach, and 84% had gone on to train colleagues.
- Khan Academy and Wikipedia for Schools are the most used ARES modules, followed by TED-Ed, CK-12 and SeaVuria.
- **74%** asked for KICD digital curriculum content to be added. It is now part of the ARES roadmap.

The main request from schools was simple: more notebooks and projectors.