Relationship between School Distance, Parental Socio-economic Status and Students' Academic Performance in Ibrahim Sakaba Government Day Secondary School, Dabai, Zuru, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the school distance, parental socio-economic status and students' academic performance in Ibrahim Sakaba Day Secondary School, Dabai in Zuru. The study employed a case study design. The population for this study comprised of 1,205 students of the school and purposive sampling technique was adopted in selecting the 221 subjects for the study. two instruments were used in collecting data, and they are: a Self-Designed School Distance and Parental Socio-Economic Status Questionnaire for Students (SDPSESQS), a self-designed tests in Mathematics and English language, which measured students' academic performance, three hypotheses were generated and tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) and Multiple Regression. The findings of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between school distance and students' academic performance as well as between socio-economic status of parents and students' academic performance. Among other things, it was recommended that government should consider the home-school distance when citing schools in each locality as well as establish more boarding schools with relevant facilities to support students who trek a long distance on daily basis.