Kilifi County

School management system for Kilifi schools

Enaton runs fees, academics, parents and staff for schools in Kilifi, from as low as KES 4,060 a month. Each school is configured on its own terms, which matters in a county where two schools twenty minutes apart can be entirely different businesses.

  • Kilifi town
  • Malindi
  • Watamu
  • Mtwapa
  • Mariakani
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Locally

What is different about running a school in Kilifi

Kilifi is long, and it changes as you move away from the water. The coast strip around Malindi, Watamu and Mtwapa carries international and high fee private schools serving resident foreign families and the tourism economy. Move inland and you are among large public day schools where the fee per learner is a small fraction of that.

The county also carries a heavy sponsorship and bursary presence, so a meaningful number of learners are funded by somebody other than their parents. A school that cannot distinguish a sponsored learner from a defaulting one will chase the wrong families and lose the sponsor’s paperwork at the same time.

Fees

Fees, sponsors and bursaries in one ledger

Waivers, bursaries and sponsorships are handled as first class records rather than as a balance somebody was told to ignore. A sponsored learner shows as properly settled, not as arrears nobody is chasing, and the school can show a sponsor exactly what their money covered.

Alongside that, ordinary fees come in by M-Pesa and by bank, each landing against the right learner and the right vote head, so the two never get confused with each other.

Fee structures are per school, so a school charging in a different bracket does not inherit a group default that does not fit it.

Price

What Enaton costs a school in Kilifi

From as low as KES 4,060 a month for your school, with every module switched on. However many learners you bring in, the system handles them. Running several schools? Talk to Enaton for a group quote. Pricing does not change by county.

Setup, importing what you keep in Excel and training are done with you by our own team. See what is included, or what moving from spreadsheets involves.

Questions from Kilifi schools

How are sponsored and bursary learners handled?

Waivers and bursaries are recorded against the learner as proper records, grouped or individual, so a sponsored learner shows as settled rather than as an arrears figure nobody is chasing. The school can show a sponsor exactly what was covered.

Can two schools with very different fee levels sit in one organisation?

Yes. Each school has its own fee structures, vote heads, terms and curriculum, none of it inherited from a group default, while directors still see both separately and combined.

Can somebody other than the parent pay and get proof?

Yes. Any payer receives a receipt carrying the learner name, and anyone can verify that receipt is genuine from a public link without needing an account.

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Run your Kilifi school on one system

Fees, academics, transport, parents and staff in one place, from as low as KES 4,060 a month.

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