EFFECT OF POVERTY ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN MAIDUGURI METROPOLIS BORNO STATE

This study evaluated the effects of poverty on students' academic performance in Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State. Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. Poverty negatively affects school performance in a number of ways. Poverty retards proper human development in physical, mental language and social domains. One's educational achievement is also grossly affected by poverty in sense that poor parents fail to provide adequate financial and material resources that are a prerequisite to admission at school. The study has three objective and research questions. The research design for this study is survey method. Survey method is the design that involved the administering of questionnaire to collect information pertaining what the research were trying to obtain from respondents. The instrument that was used to collect data for this study was self-structured Assessment of effect of poverty on students' academic performance in Maiduguri Metropolis. The data collected was analyzed using frequency counts and percentage score. Where the result was represented in tabular forms. The finding shows that, Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the Financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. And also reveal that, majority of respondents are agreed that, Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the Financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living.