Effect of Parents’ Socio-economic Status on Students’ Academic Achievement

Abstract

The study was planned to examine the effect of parents’ socioeconomic status (SES) on academic achievements of the students at secondary level. Objectives of the study include identification of parents’ SES fall in the category of low, average, and high level and to find out difference between each SES level across achievement of the students at secondary level. This was descriptive study and the population was consisted of all 10th grade students of public secondary schools of Gujranwala. Total sample comprises of 400 students including equal number of girls and boys. Two stage random sampling technique was used for Data collection, at first stage 20 public secondary schools (10 boys & 10 girls) were randomly selected out of 57 public secondary schools of Tehsil Wazirabad and at second stage 20 students were randomly selected from each selected school. The study concluded that parents had different socioeconomic status levels and different socioeconomic status levels have significant effects on students’ achievements.