The Relationship Between Educational Resources And Students' Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF IN ILORIN WEST LGA, KWARA STATE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS]

Federal and state policy maker proposing new education program often base their argument on the need to provide more resources to school to improve opportunities for students. Many Americans seems to share this view.
Polling data show that many people believe that government allocates insufficient resources to school. A poll conducted annually from 2009 through 2012 found that American adults list insufficient funding and resources as top problem facing public school in their community.
The availability of educational resources is very important because of its role in the achievement of education objectives and goals. The extent to which an organization like educational institution attains her objectives is directly proportional to the educational resources available and their utilization. Educational resources can be categorized into human, material, physical and financial resources.
     Human resources in education are the students, teaching staff, non teaching staff such as bursar, Liberian, laboratory attendants, clerks’ messengers, mail runner, gatekeepers, gardener and cook as well as educational planners and administrators.
                          Material resources include textbooks, charts, maps, audio-visual, and electronic instructional. Materials such as radio, tape recorder, television and video tape recorder. other category of material resources consist of paper supplies and writing materials such as biro, eraser, exercise books, crayon, chalk, drawing books, notebooks, pencil, ruler, slate, workbooks and so on.
               Physical resources include classrooms, lecture theaters, auditoriums typing pools, administrative block, libraries, laboratories, workshops, gymnasia and assembly halls, special rooms like sickbay, staff room quarters, students' hostel, kitchen, cafeteria, lavatory and toilet.
    Financial resources are the monetary inputs available for and expended on the education system, these include money allocated to education by the government grants, PTA levy, and donations from philanthropists and internally generated funds.
              Academic performance of secondary school students also depends largely on adequate provision of all the resources. The resources which should normally go along with the program, are inadequate, even the quantity that is made available is not efficiently allocated. This study is specially set out to ascertain the extent to which human, physical, material and financial resources are being allocated. To find a solution to these problems that has become the subject of considerable national concern. It is expedient that we should examine the factors responsible for the problem either empirically or in some logical manner.