Day schools in Samburu county are recording low class attendance due to the heavy rains being experienced in the entire county.
Rivers have burst their banks and floods are incapacitating transportation and movement of students to and from schools.
The most affected are pupils of St Paul's primary school in Mararal who cannot make it to school early in the morning and they end up going home late in the evening or spending their nights in school when it rains.
Pupils in upper classes are forced to cross river Yare using a log of tree that has now been swept away by the bursting river.
The school enrollment, as per the daily register, has tremendously gone down since the month of May when the rain started causing floods.
The schools admit to expecting poor performance this year due to the rains.
"We will not be able to perform well in this years' KCPE owing to the fact that most pupils do not come to school when it rains or they come very late as they have to wait for the river to reduce", said Eunice Wanjiru, a class eight teacher.
Most of our pupils have not reported to school for the last one month, "we cannot blame them or their parents because they cannot fly", added the teacher.
Pupils coming from Yare and Lkuruto are the most affected.
The school is now calling upon the Samburu county government to intervene and build a bridge for the benefit of the children and the surrounding community.