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ABSTRACT

The increasing enrolment of students in privately owned and mission schools has raised concern among stakeholders in the education sector. This trend motivated the present study, which examined students’ academic performance in individually owned and mission-owned private schools within the LGA. A survey research design was adopted, with a population comprising students from both categories of schools. A sample of 100 students was selected using stratified random sampling. The study was guided by four research questions and four corresponding null hypotheses tested at the 0.05 level of significance. Data were collected from students’ termly results and analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions, while independent sample t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that students in individually owned private schools had higher mean performance (43.22) than those in mission-owned private schools (39.10). Female students in both school types also outperformed their male counterparts. Based on these findings, appropriate recommendations were made.