Impacts of Dilapidated Buildings on Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Ogun State, Nigeria

: Education is the process of knowledge impartation either through formal or informal methods. School is generally an environment for learning and is of different types, these include crèche, nursery, primary, secondary, vocational, and tertiary learning environments. Secondary school is the stage following primary school and precedes vocational or tertiary education. Learning environment building maintenance considers adequate repairs attention to buildings to avoid falling into a state of disrepair. Lack of good maintenance process and activity of school buildings often results in building deterioration and dilapidation. The paper assesses the effects of dilapidated buildings on the student's academic performance in selected secondary schools in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area. A survey design research strategy was adopted and the target population is students of public secondary schools in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State. A total of one hundred and twenty junior and senior secondary school students were selected for the study. The paper revealed that most of the classroom buildings in the selected secondary school have varied levels of classroom building obsolesce; schools’ classrooms are in poor condition and noticeable across the selected school. The paper recommends the adequate provision of well-equipped and functional classrooms to promote effective teaching and learning experience among the teachers and students of secondary schools in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State, this is expected to boost student academic performance and increase the productivity of the teaching staff among others.