Yammatawa Community Community in kebbi State, Nigeria and School Dropout Syndrome

Abstract

The study looked at secondary school dropout in the Yammatawa Communities of Nigeria’s Kebbi State. The study was conducted to examine how demographic traits and educational factors affect secondary school dropout in Kebbi State, specifically in the Yammatawa areas. With more than 11,000 secondary school shuttered, 18.5 million student dropout of school in Nigeria in 2020 report stated. 6,167 dropout students from the academic year 2020-2021 made up the study’s population. For data collection 400 dropout were employed. Data gathering methods included using student records, a class attendance log, and a structured questionnaire. In order to address the study questions, the acquired data were statistically analyzed, and the Pearson product moment correlation was employed to test the hypothesis. The study discovered that there were a number of trends that contributed to dropout rates. It is clear that there is no one reason why kids drop out of school; rather, a variety of factors interact with one another in a complex manner. The consequences of the secondary school dropout rate are that it will have a variety of effects on community and national educational development.