The Great Places To School (GPTS) is a research-based rating exercise to identify, rate and recognize schools whose innovative learning environment and overall school culture contribute to the development of a total child holistically. GPTS is equivalent to an annual report card which provides accurate, objective, understandable information about the performance of individual schools that is not easily available anywhere else.

Kenya’s past experience with ranking was solely examination based and was out of touch with the current educational and social realities and the past system of using mean scores alone to rate learners or institutions did not give conclusive evidence of the effects of other variables such as physical resources, teacher-pupil ratio, teacher quality, teaching-learning materials and school management which impact on performance.

For more than a decade, the Global Peace Foundation has been engaging educators and stakeholders to integrate ethics and the demands of the twenty-first-century workforce skills
into public secondary schools.