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Kako Junior School was founded in 1917 by The National Anglican Church of Uganda, and became a government grant aided school in the 1960s. It also gave rise to a Kako Secondary School, a National Boarding Secondary School. Kako Junior School enjoyed success between the 1960s and early 1980s but faced decline due to wars and socio-economic and political challenges in Uganda.

Kako Junior School used to attar pupils from neighboring countries but when Universal Primary Education was introduced in 1997, rich parents moved their children to private schools. This caused the boarding section to collapse, although faculty and parents are now trying to revive it, and meant that the school only catered for children from the local community which is very poor.

The current enrolment enrollment includes 394 girls and 378 boys for a total of 772 students, from Primary 1 to 7. Last year the school received 2,783,700 shillings ($1,630) of government funding and parents contributed an additional 5,100,000 shillings ($3,000). This total, however, falls well short of the 240,000,000 shillings ($140,000) the administration estimates it would take to effectively run the school for a year.

[related_posts]Kako Junior School has 21 teachers, 21 classrooms, 11 teacher houses, and 7 administration rooms, all of which need renovation and improvements. In addition to those improvements, Kako Junior School is seeking to purchase a school bus and musical instruments, construct water sources and modern latrines, a library, science room, and computer room and implement a lunch program for its students.