The Extent to Which Curriculum Support Costs Influence Students’ Gross Enrolment Ratio Inlaikipia County, Kenya

This study was set to investigate the students’ participation in education in day secondary schools in Laikipia County as measured by gross enrolment ratios. It was necessitate by the declining enrolment ratios in day secondary schools within the county. The main objective was to analyze the extent to which curriculum support costs influence students’ gross enrolment ratio in Laikipia County. The target population was 19,065 respondents, of whom were, five sub-County directors of education; 78 principals; 7,800 form three and four parents; 8,870 form three and four students, and 312 form three and four class teachers. Census was used to select five SCDEs, stratified random sampling was used to select 25 principals and 400 students, simple random sampling to select 400 parents and 100 class teachers to make a sample size of 930 participants. Both probability and non-probability sampling methods were used to select a sample size of 930 participants. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) was computed and a level of 0.87 was achieved. The research utilized tangerine electronic data collection software used for data entry and data cleaning. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze quantitative data. mathematical set had a statistically significant relationship with the gross attendance ratio with ordinal rank 2, 3, 4, 5 having (b- 1.161, 1.978, 1.545, 2.194 SE 0.535, 0.451, 0.440, 472, wald 4.703, 19.221, 12.306, 21.588 and p= 0.030,