Al-Hikmah University Journal

Students can learn more effectively and perform better academically in environments with functional school buildings that are appropriate for teaching and learning. In situations where these facilities are inadequate, students struggle to learn and in most cases, perform woefully in their academic performance. Based on this, the study looked into the connection between the utilization of school buildings and students’ academic performance in Kwara State public secondary schools. Stratified and purposive random sampling methods were used to choose 45 senior secondary schools from the three senatorial districts. To collect the necessary data from the respondents, a research designed questionnaire with psychometric features of content face validity and 0.75 reliability was obtained. Pearson product correlation statistic was used to test hypotheses formulated from the data gathered from classroom utilization and students’ academic performance while the percentage was used to analyze utilization rate. The results showed that most senior secondary school classrooms in urban areas were either moderately utilized or over-utilized In an environment with functional school buildings that are appropriate and conducive for teaching and learning, students learn more effectively and perform brilliantly academically. In situations where these facilities are inadequate, students struggle to learn. Based on this, the study looked into the connection between students' academic achievement and the use of classrooms in a subset of Kwara State's senior public secondary schools. Using stratified and purposive random sampling approaches, 45 senior secondary schools from each of the three senatorial districts were chosen. To collect the necessary data from the respondents, a questionnaire designed met psychometric features of content validity and a 0.75 reliability index was employed. The questionnaire for the study was used to collect several students that used each of the school buildings, and the time spent using the building. Percentage was used to calculate space, time and global utilisation rate. The three hypotheses formulated for the study were tested with the PPMC analysis method to find the relationship between independent and dependent variables. Results of the study showed that utilization of classrooms in urban areas are either moderately utilized or over utilized while in rural secondary schools, there is under-utilization or moderate utilization, all the hypotheses formulated for the study were rejected that is, there is a significant relationship between classroom utilization and students’ academic performance in public senior secondary school in Kwara State. It is recommended that the Government should as a matter of urgency stop the proliferation of secondary schools in the State or merge two or more secondary to increase school size in the rural areas.