Influence of Classroom Management on Students’ Academic Achievement in Sub County Public Secondary Schools in Bondo Sub County, Kenya

School facilities not only provide the means and environment for curriculum implementation to students and school staff but also make them feel safe and motivated to learn, work or teach. A school with adequate and well-managed facilities attracts many students because it is able to meet the curriculum requirements. Globally, educational achievement has been measured by standardized scores obtained from examinations. There is a clamor for quality grades in the national examinations with parents choosing schools for their children depending on how many students the school qualified for university admission. Previous studies in other regions have linked students’ academic achievement to the management of the school plant. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of selected school plant management on students’ academic achievement in the Kenya national examinations in public Sub County secondary schools in Bondo Sub-County, Kenya. This study focused on the following objectives: To assess the extent to which classroom conditions have influenced students’ academic achievement in sub county public secondary schools in Bondo Sub-County.The study was guided by the Education Production Function proposed by Coleman (1966). The Mixed Method Research Design was used and the concurrent triangulation approach adopted. The study targeted all the 29 public secondary schools in Bondo Sub County from which purposive sampling was used to identify 21 Sub County public secondary schools which formed the sample size. Saturated sampling was used to identify the one Sub-County Director of Education. Document analysis of the Kenya National Examinations for the years 2023 2024, 2025 was done. Questionnaires were administered to the 21 deputy principals, An Interview Schedule was used to gather in-depth information from 1 Sub-County Director of Education and 21 principals of the schools. Validity of the instruments was determined by the supervisors and members of staff from the School of Education Humanities and Social Sciences. Quantitative data was analyzed using computer SPSS v35 and presented in frequencies, and percentages using charts and tables whereas qualitative data was thematically analyzed and presented in prose form. The study established that classroom conditions occasioned by congestion have hindered collaboration leading to low achievement scores. Overall, the study established that there is a strong influence of school plants on students’ academic achievements and recommends that both the Ministry of Education and the school boards of management should support and increase funding to schools to improve the existing infrastructure in order to improve students’ academic achievement in the national examinations and uplift the standards and quality of the existing school infrastructure with an aim to improve students’ academic achievement. The study also recommends that the government should come up with a framework that will ensure equal distribution of students across the schools to ensure equitable classroom enrolment that averts overcrowding. A study should be conducted to establish the role of CDF in school plant development in sub county secondary schools in Bondo Sub County.

Management Achievement, Implementation, Facilities, Examinations

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