The study was undertaken to investigate the influence of parents’ participation in secondary school management on students’ academic performance in Zone A Senatorial District of Benue State. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The literature was reviewed under conceptual/theoretical framework, empirical studies and summary which identified the gap to be filled by this study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of this study comprised 2,526 teachers in 102 secondary schools in Zone A Senatorial District of Benue State. 289 teachers from 10 secondary schools in Zone A Senatorial District of Benue State constituted the sample of the study. A 20-item structured four-point rating scale questionnaire constructed by the researcher titled influence of parents’ participation in secondary school management Questionnaire (IPPSSMQ) was used for collection of data for the study. Data obtained from field study were then analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the three research questions, while the chi-square (x2 ) test of goodness of-fit was used to test the three hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that: parents’ participation in school financing, academic-related activities at home and discipline significantly influence students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Zone A Senatorial District of Benue State. It was recommended among others parents should be encouraged by appropriate school authorities to fully support the financing of their wards or children mostly by providing all the required learning materials and they should frequently and promptly pay their school fees.
