Parents’ Participation and Students Academic Performance in Selected Universal Secondary Education Schools in Kumi District, Uganda

The study investigated the relationship between debt financing and financial performance of SMEs in Masaka City, Uganda. This study was conducted to examine the effect of parents’ participation and students’ academic performance in selected Universal Secondary Education Schools in Kumi District. The objectives of the study to establish the relationship between the role played by parents in planning of school activities and academic performance in selected Universal Secondary  Education Schools in Kumi District, to investigate the relationship between parents’ participation in school financing and students’ academic performance in selected Universal Secondary  Education Schools in Kumi District and to examine the relationship between parents’ participation in the management of students’ discipline and students’ academic performance in selected Universal Secondary  Education Schools in Kumi District.. The study adopted a cross section survey design and involved students, teachers, parents and administrators were involved. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected, analyzed, interpreted and presented. The findings of the study were that parental involvement in school’s planning has not been  fully realized and have not been adequately involved in the financing of school activities, which has led to financial resources constraints and, consequently, impinged on the students’ academic performance. It was also established that parents’ involvement in students discipline has had no effect on academic performance in Kumi District. It was, therefore, concluded that parental involvement in the management of school discipline should be complemented with participation in planning/management and financing of the school if good academic performance is to be realized.

The study recommendations that were made included; the need for government to make a policy on the specific roles parents should play in school management, government should increase funding of USE program managers of Kumi District devise non-tuition related means of financing the school and focus should not be on discipline alone but also on other variables like quality of students at the point of entry in senior one, quality of teaching, internal efficiency of the school and staff motivation.