Factors Influencing School-Community Relations the Case of Government Secondary Schools of Yeka Sub City, Addis Ababa City
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2025-08-01
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Addis Ababa University
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This study investigates the key factors influencing the establishment and maintenance of school-community relations in government secondary school in Yeka Sub City of Addis Ababa. The study employed a descriptive research design, gathering data from a total of 394 respondents, including teacher, principals, vice principals, supervisors and parents, selected through random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. Questionnaire and interview were used for data collection, with 394 questionnaires successfully collected and analyzed using frequency, percentage and mean. The study revealed inadequate performance in several critical areas, perceptions of school safety and discipline. Furthermore, the availability of resources for school-community programs and the community understanding of school goals / vision were found to be inadequately performed. Teacher morale and job satisfaction overall student achievement and resources availability for academic programs are very low. Similarly, workshops or training for parents and addressing community concerns promptly and transparently were rated low. School proactive engagement with community leaders, community perception of school leadership, the school’s encouragement of feedback from parents and the community, community understanding of school rules/ policies and the school responsiveness to community feedback and concern were inadequately performed. The study also highlighted the low appointment of a dedicated community liaison officer and insufficient review and updating of school policies based on community feedback. Finally, overall student enrolment and retention, availability of community based learning resources and effective management of school resources were inadequately carried out. Overall launching public awareness campaign on the importance of community involvement in education, integrating community feedback mechanism in to educational planning and providing training for school leaders and teachers on community engagement were notably low. Further research, such as comparative studies, need to be carried out to determine the overall factors influencing good school-community relation
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School, community, government, Secondary School