IMPACT OF PARENTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (PTA) ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN BWARI AREA COUNCIL FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT) ABUJA

This study is designed to find out the roles of Parents Teachers Associationin the Academic performance of students. The study employed a survey research design and stratified random sampling was used to select the respondents. Four research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The research instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire, the instrument consisted of twenty four (24) item questionnaire captioned. Parents Teachers Association’s, Participation in the Administration of Secondary School. The analytical tools used for the research questions were mean and standard deviation while the null hypothesis were tested using the t-test statistics of difference between mean samples at an alpha level of0.05.Based on the above findings, a number of recommendations were made which includes that; government should make policies regarding school community relationships and empowering Parents Teachers Associationto make levies to help provide for the school, teachers and the Parents Teachers Associationshould see themselves as partners in the process of educating the children, and finally government should provide guidelines for the Parents Teachers Association.