Type of School and the Level of Students’ Academic Achievement in Marakwet East Sub County

Abstract

The major purpose of this study was to assess the effect of type of school on the level of students’ academic achievement in Marakwet East Sub County.
 Academic achievements in secondary schools have remained low with major disaprities between the boys and girls schools in Marakwet East Sub-County. 
 The study utilized the Causal comparative approach. The study was undertaken in Public Secondary Schools in Marakwet East, Elgeyo County Kenya between January 2021 to February 2021.
 Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling was used to sample 3 boys’ school, 3 girls school and 4 mixed schools. Findings showed the one-way between groups analysis of variance was F (2, 7) = 10.936, p.05. As a result, the null hypothesis which was stated as that there is no link between school type and academic achievement was rejected.In conclusion,the present study rejected the null hypothesis and concludes that the relationship is statistically significant. The sample data support the notion that the relationship between the independent variable and dependent variable exists in the population of secondary schools in Marakwet East. Thus the hypothesis (Ho1) was rejected. There was a link between academic achievement and the type of school. Boys' and girls' schools, in particular, performed better than mixed schools.