Effect Of School’s Factors On Students’ Academic Performance In English Language
[A CASE STUDY OF EWEKORO LGA, OGUN STATE]

In view of this, a teacher is someone who has been exposed to a good measure of training in a teaching subject area as well as in professional education: such professional qualified teachers may according to the Federal Ministry of Education (2004) fall into a number of academic categories. Alonge (2004) regarded the trained teacher as someone who underwent and completed his education in a formal teacher training institution or in planned programme of training, Such areas of training may include principles and practice of education as well as exposure to an observed period of internship either after or as part of the period of training. People who fall within this category should under normal circumstances be able to fulfill the various functions’ expected of teacher within and outside the four wall of the classroom.
Uchefuna  (2001) perceived a professional teacher as one who possesses professionally based knowledge in the theory and practice of education as well as find job satisfaction in the belief that he/she is making an important contribution to the social, cultural and economic development of his/her country. Such a teacher should equally, be able to understand student abilities to exploit educational benefit of the social context within which he/she lives He/she should be able to assist students  to reach their full intellectual and social potentials.
Trends of Students Performance in JSSCE English language Examination
The statistics of results  released by Ogun State ministry of Education for JSSCE  shows that students’  performance in English language is decreasing based on the percentage of the students who passed the subject. The pupils performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Ogun State has not exceeded 50% pass rate since 2010 to date. For instance, in 2010, the pass rate was 47.6% which declined to 40.1% in 2011. In 2012, it further declined to 39.8%. The pass rate for BECE in 2010, however experienced a slight increase to 46.6%, but the figure consistently dropped to 41.1% in 2014
The critical issue is what is causing this phenomenon in spite of the efforts put in by the government and non-governmental organization (NGOs) to boost the students’ performance at the BECE in Ogun State.This phenomenon of poor academic performance of students has sparked off series of research to find out its causes. Many of those studies have considered the learning factors from the perspectives either of the home learning environment or of the school environment. The variables in the home learning environment usually investigated include family structure, parental involvement, and socio-economic status of parents and level of education of parents  Abiola,( 2012).
Studies on school environmental factors focused on teachers’ qualification, teachers’ availability, class sizes, availability of teaching and learning materials, monitoring school ownership (i.e private or public) motivation of teachers and the teachers’ absenteeism/commitment to the duty. Nevertheless all the above mentioned variables are not  independent of one another to influence effective teaching-learning of English language, which triggers the phenomenon of poor academic performance in English language. All the above variables must be observed so that the students’ academic performance in English language could be better.
Appraisal of Literature Reviewed
    The essence of this research work showed that both instructional spaces, infrastructural spaces and availability of adequate qualified teachers, greatly influence the students’ academic performance. This result confirmed the views of some writers like Chandrika Mohan (2002), Dixion (2004), Abe and Abu (2013) and Wiki (2013).
This study revealed that when taken together, the class size determined significantly secondary school students’ performance, but when taken separately, all except student-classroom space, determined significantly secondary school students’ academic performance. In Ogun State  Nigeria, schools should be aiming to get the number of students to teacher ratio as low as possible. The more students each teacher has, the harder it is for them to teach, and the higher the chances of some students slipping through the cracks, because they cannot get the help they need with their study. In addition to this point Fayemi (1991) observed that “It is a truism that teacher are the hubs of any educational system” that upon their number, their quality and devotion depend the success of any educational system.