School infrastructure and performance of public secondary schools in Pallisa district:

Abstract

The study was conducted to examine the impact of school infrastructure on performance of public secondary schools particularly in Pallisa secondary school in Pallisa district. It was based on three objectives; to examine the impact of administrative infrastructure on performance in Pallisa secondary school, to examine the impact of academic infrastructure on performance of Pallisa secondary school and to examine the impact of co-curricular infrastructure on performance of Pallisa secondary school. The study adopted cross-sectional research design, and quantitative approach to test the casual relationship and predictive power of the independent variable on dependent variable. Data was collected from the target population of 120 respondents with accessible unit of inquiry being 92 respondents of Pallisa secondary school drawn using (Krejcie & Morgan, 1970). The 92 respondents were drawn using stratified sampling technique. Data was collected using a close-ended questionnaire which was later entered in SPSS version 20 and analyzed using descriptive statistics where frequencies, correlation and regression results were obtained. The findings revealed that; administrative infrastructure positively influences school performance, academic infrastructure positively influences school performance and co-curricular infrastructure positively influences school performance. The researcher concluded that the government should always provide strong school infrastructures that can improve monitoring and implementation of control activities and hence improve the school performance of public schools in Pallisa district.