This study investigated attitude and school environmental factors as determinants of students’ academic achievement in Economics. The study adopted a descriptive research design of the survey type. All the entire students in Senior Secondary School class two in Metropolis formed the population for the study. The sample comprised 540 students selected from the population using purposive and stratified random sampling techniques. The instruments used to collect data were Students Attitude to Economics Scale with reliability coefficient of 0.74 and Economics Achievement Test (MAT) with reliability coefficient of 0.75. Data collected were analysed using Mean, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and t-test analysis. Findings of the study indicated that there was a significant relationship between school environment and students’ academic performance in Economics and that there was no significant relationship between students’ attitude to Economics. Based on the outcome of this study, school environment was found to be an important predictor of students’ academic performance in significant relationship between school environment and students’ academic performance in Economics. Therefore, it was recommended that educational evaluator should take school, location into consideration when evaluating students’ performance in public examinations. Policy makers and stakeholders in the education sector should ensure that the educational facilities in the rural locations measure up to that obtainable in the urban locations.
Keywords: : Academic Performance, Achievement, Determinant, School Environment, attitude
