Abstract
The study assessed the effect of School
Feeding Programme on Pupils Academic Performance in Public Primary Schools of
Kaduna State. The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of School
Feeding Programme on Academic Performance rate of the Pupils inGiwa, Kauru and
Zaria Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The population of the study is
361,302 from which 384 were sampled using Krejcie & Morgan table. The study
adopted survey research design and obtain its data from primary and secondary
sources. The instruments of the primary data collection utilized was
Questionnaire. The Questionnaires were administered to the respondents.
Respondents were selected using a Cluster and
simple random sampling techniques. Simple Linear Regression analysis was used
in testing the hypotheses. Both descriptive and inferential statistical tools
were used in presenting and analysing the data obtained from the field.
Findings of the study showed that the mode of serving food is time consuming,
which often affect some class periods and consequently may affect their
academic performance. It was therefore
recommended among other things that the government should increase the number
of vendors so that the time for sharing food will be simplified and not time
consuming.
Keywords: School Feeding
Programme, Pupils Academic Performance
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/fujpam.2025.v4i01.013
author/Ra'is, N.A. & Yusuf, H.A.
journal/FUJPAM Vol. 4, No. 1
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