KAMPALA – The 2022 Primary Leaving Examination – PLE results, which Examinations Board – Uneb released on Friday indicated that at least 583,786 pupils were from the Universal Primary Education -UPE schools while 249,041 were non-UPEs.
According to Uneb, there was a general improvement in the performance of candidates in all districts in the country but some excelled beyond – with Mbarara, Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono emerging on top.
A total of 832,654 candidates from 14,691 centres registered for PLE and of those, 114,617 (14.1%) passed in first grade.
More than 51.9 per cent of the total registered candidates were females and 48.1 per cent were males.
The males performed better than the females and recorded a lower failure rate overall. 60,070 (15.4%) of the males were in Division one compared to the 54,547 (12.9%) of females.
“The girls have always beaten the boys in English but then the latter surface above the former in the other subjects. This is a trend we have observed over the years,” said the Chairperson Uneb Prof Mary Okwakol, adding that although the Covid-19 pandemic appeared to have eased compared to what it was in 2021, the board faced another challenge occasioned by the outbreak of Ebola in some parts of the country.
Below is a list of the top 40 schools per the highest number of first grades; 
