American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Education is one of the social factors where by gender disparity is reflected. In the field of education, the number of educated females is very low. As the grade level in school increases the number of female students starts to decline because of lots of factors. Consequently, higher education remains an area of learning from which women are less represented both as a student and staff. The main objective of this research is to identifying factors affecting female students’ academic achievement in Aberuswolkite high school. To do so, to make the sample representative enough; the study used were used as the main tool of data gathering instrument. The findings of this study shows that the decreasing in enrolment, increasing in dropout and class repetition from time to simple random sampling technique school female students through lottery method and purposive sampling techniques for school directors and city education head officer. The study is descriptive type research. Primary and secondary data were used as data source. Questionnaire and structured interview time and different causes were identified such as female students were took household responsibility, and inadequate support from their family, lack of teachers instructional support(regular tutor for female students), inadequate guidance and counseling. All these taken as caused female students poor academic performance in the study area. The core issues were pointed out in the conclusion part of the study and the researcher recommendations are: Motivation program should be organized, Training program should be designed, sufficient budget should allocated, sufficient time should given for female students to do their home work. And the study will help all concerned bodies to understand the causes of the problem under investigation and they should try to solve the problem effectively.