Effects of School Proximity on Students’ Performance in Mathematics

This research investigated the school proximity and the Grade 7 students’ academic performance in Math of a mountain barrio public national high school in Pinamungajan, Cebu, Philippines. There were 171 respondents who were identified using simple random sampling. They answered a survey questionnaire describing their proximity to the school while their Fourth Quarter Grades were used to assess their academic performance in Math. Data gathered were treated using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that most of the students are very far from school which they have to walk to reach school. Most of their houses are not accessible to the road. They had a very satisfactory performance in Math. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between the students’ distance to school and their academic performance in Math. However, no significant relationships between the student’s mode of transportation, house accessibility to the road, and their academic performance in Math were found. Thus, it is recommended that school administrators and teachers design programs that would address students’ challenges in attending school relative to their house to school distance while the government provides infrastructures that would address concerns on long-distance travel of the students.