A Study on Academic Performance of Public and Private Schools in Winneba Municipality

The purpose was to evaluate and compare academic performance of private and public schools in Winneba. The study concentrated on basic level of education with descriptive survey of the ex-post facto research design using quantitative approach. Purposive sampling was used to select two schools one being private and other public. Simple random sampling was used to select the ten (10) teachers, five from each school. Moreover, purposive sampling was also used to select two (2) head –teachers of which one from each school. The instruments for the study were questionnaire and document. Non-parametric statistics was used to analyze the questionnaire and the document. The result revealed that the level of experience of professional teachers, educational material and teaching and learning facilities together with quality of supervision between the two set of schools were significantly different. On academic performance the result of the document shows that there was no significant difference. Recommendations were given to that effect.