Effect of school safety on students’ academic performance among public secondary school students in Lagos State, Nigeria BY Lukumon Akande, SALAHUDEEN Lagos State University, Ojo Lagos State, Nigeria lukmon.salahudeen@lasu.edu.ng Abstract This study analyzed the effect of school safety on students’ academic performance in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. A total of one hundred (100) teachers including school administrators were randomly selected from public schools in Amuwo – Odofin Local Government Area. A structured self-developed questionnaire was designed in line with a 5-poitn likert scale and the instrument was administered to the respondents in order to ascertain the effect of school safety on student academic performance. The data was analyzed with simple percentage and non-parametric statistics of chia-square using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). Finding shows that public schools in do not have effective safety facilities and equipment to take prompt remedial action and also, the result shows that security and discipline rules perceived by teachers and students were not strictly enforced in most public schools in Lagos State. Therefore, it was recommended that government should e stablish and maintain professional relationships with a variety of education stakeholders (including key policymakers and labour leaders) is important in advancing safety schools. 1. Introduction Safety is a particularly pressing issue in urban public schools, in part because community factors such as crime and poverty play a strong role in shaping the climate of schools. A number of studies have shown that neighbourhood characteristics, including crime and poverty, influence the social and educational development of children and the climate of schools (Bowen and Bowen cited in Matthew, Elaine and David, 2011). Tsavga (2011) maintains that the learning environment plays a vital role in determining how students perform or respond to circumstances and situations around them. This implies that no society is void of environmental influences. The learning environment determines to a large extent how a student behaves and interacts, that is to say that the environment in which we find ourselves tend to mound our behaviour so as to meet the demands of life whether negatively or positively. The United Nations Study on Violence against Children reveals that children worldwide are at risk of violence in and around the school. The threats range from rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and physical beatings to verbal abuse, bullying, taunting, stereotyping and other forms of humiliation. At times, teachers, school authorities and peers are the