Effect of Home Environment on Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Abuja Municipal Area Council

The study sought to find out Effect of Home Environment on Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of all the secondary schools in the study area. A total number of 200 respondents were sampled. The main research instrument of this study was a structured questionnaire titled: Impact of Home Environment on Effective Students’ Academic Achievement Questionnaire (EHESSSAPQ) and was divided into two sections. The instrument was validated by three experts. To establish the reliability of the instrument, two sets of responses were analyzed using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis (PPMC) with which the correlation was determined. A correlation of 0.71 was found reliable which was enough.Two research questions and research hypotheses were raised and answered descriptively using frequency counts and simple percentage, while the hypotheses were tested inferentially using t-test statistics. The result of the findings revealed that; broken home and parental socio-economic backgrounds have effect on students’ academic achievement and the two null hypotheses were rejected. Based on findings and conclusion, the following recommendations among others were made; parents should do everything possible to avoid cases of divorce that could lead to broken home, as it affects effective academic achievements of students from such homes employment opportunities should be created for the unemployed parents, parents should be encouraged to improve their educational standard by engaging in continuous programme.