ACCESSIBILITY STANDARD OF PRIMARY SCHOOL WITHIN KANKE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The relevance of site planning in journey to and from school revolves around accessibility. Rural residential location is a function of accessibility and distance. Town and school planners try to ensure pupils travel distance do not affect their academic performance, hence it’s stipulated <2km a walking distance. Accessibility affect planned structure of whether clustered or dispersed in the siting of social services. There are 4districts in Kanke LGA with public primary schools existing as Amper; 13, Ampang-east; 13, Garram; 12 and Kabwir 38 a total of 96 schools. There were no private schools during this research. A sample of 50% on each district were used for random school selection as Amper;7, Ampang-East;6, Garram;6 and Kabwir 19 to give a total of 48 sampled schools. A total of 2780 questionnaire were systematically randomly administered. Questionnaire had 2 subsections pupils travel:  age, distance travel, effect of walking to and from school, travel hazard and transport modes and parents palliatives measures:  reasons for low pupil assistance, etc. The 2 hypotheses used were Chi-square;  school attendance is not a function of distance from home, had 26.68 using a double tailed test of df; 26.30 and 32.00 at 0.005 and 0.01 level of confident respectively. H₁ is accepted; 69.68>32.00>26.30 as school attendance is a function of distance from pupil home. PCC test of distance reliability with 95% test of confidence; 0.05 revealed H₂; School attendance is affected by distance. Commendation is school planners should comply with stipulated accessibility standard, the establishment of school clinic.