School Location and Students’ Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Bayelsa State

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The research analysed Bayelsa State public secondary school students' academic performance and school location. The study used correlational survey research. For the 2021/2022 academic year, 18,140 pupils from 88 public secondary schools in three Bayelsa State Local Government Areas were studied. Bayelsa State's Ogbia, Sagbama, and Yenagoa LGAs get 1680, 5211, and 11249. In the 2021/2022 academic year, proportional stratified random selection was used to pick 880 students (4.85% of the total population) from public secondary schools in the three designated Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The 10- item School Location and Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire (SLSAPQ) was utilised to gather data. The research supervisor and two measurement and evaluation specialists from the department of educational foundations, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, validated the instrument. The reliability coefficients of the instrument internal consistencies were calculated using Cronbach's Alpha. The dependability coefficients for school location and academic achievement were.740 and.760. Simple percentage analysis, model summary of simple regression analysis, and PPMC analysis were used to analyse demographic data, research question, and hypothesis in SPSS version 26. School location affects secondary school pupils' academic performance, according to the research. According to the findings, secondary school pupils should depend on school location to improve their academic performance.

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