School-based Determinants Of Students’ Academic Achievement In Public Secondary Schools, Butula Sub-county, Busia County, Kenya

ABSTRACT Worldwide, education has been declared a fundamental need just as food, shelter and clothing. According to the United Nations (1948), everyone has a right to education. Despite the educational development like the government‟s effort to improve quality of education, the academic performance has been chronically poor in most of the public secondary schools in Butula Sub-County, Busia County. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of school-based factors on academic achievement of secondary school students in Butula Sub-County with regard to the administrative practic…