Influence of School Financial Resources on Students’ Learning Achievement at the Higher Secondary Level

The study aims to check the influence of school financial resources on students’ achievement at higher secondary level. School funding is the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school. The objective of the study is to know the teacher’s perception about school funding and its effect on student’s achievement, and to explore the ideas of heads regarding school funding and student’s performances. The study is descriptive in nature in which mixed method was used to describe the data. The 80 teachers of both schools were population of the study. A simple random technique was applied to select the sample of the study. The sample size study was comprised 60 teachers of both schools. Pilot testing was done before finalization of the instruments. The validity of instruments was making sure by an expert’s opinion. The reliability of instrument was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha formula. The value of Cronbach’s alpha for the questionnaire of students was 0.097. The researcher personally visited sampled schools to collect data. After data collection, descriptive analysis (frequency and percentages) and interviews were applied to the data. This study also finds the impact of school funding on student achievement. This study explain that school funding plays a crucial role in shaping academic achievement and the overall learning experience of students. A well-funded education system provides numerous benefit that positively impact students, teachers, and the community as a whole.