COMPARATIVE OF THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN CHEMISTRY BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KADUNA METROPOLIS

‎ABSTRACT ‎This study was undertaken with the objective of comparing senior secondary school student’s chemistry performance in private and public schools in Kaduna Metropolis, Kaduna State. Simple survey research was employed to carry out the study. Population of this study consist of a total number of 219,370 senior secondary school students(102,839 of which are females while 116,531are males) who sat for 2019,2020 and 2021 west African senior school certificate examination in chemistry. A random sample of 921 senior secondary school students was randomly selected from private and public secondary schools. Final WAEC results for three consecutive academic sessions for the selected sample in chemistry were obtained from the Ministry of Education as thedata for the study. The collected data were analyzed using T-test statistics. Results obtained shows that there was a significant difference between private and public schools student’s performance in chemistry in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021. Private school students have relatively better performance than their public schools students counterparts. It was recommended that, there is need for government to do all it can to eradicate or reduce the security situations in the state as this also have negative effect on students enrolment, retention and concentration in their studies in the states within the years under review in this study.