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ABSTRACT
The study examined the influence of family background on senior secondary school students academic performance of Oredo local government area Edo State. More specifically, the study sought to assess the academic performance within sound family background and paltry family background in Senior secondary schools. The study consist of all senior secondary school students in Oredo local government area from(SSS1-3), simple random sampling technique was use to pick the respondents and 122 senior secondary school students were selected. 100% respondents duly participated in the survey. A well- developed questionnaire was designed to elicit information from the respondents. The data collected were analyzed using the descriptive statistics technique and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed to test the stated hypotheses at 0.05% significance level. Result from the study indicated that parents’ educational level, occupation, family size and level of motivation are key variables of family background that significantly influences the academic performance of students. Also students’ from sound family background naturally tend to perform better than their peers from paltry family background.
