SCHOOL CLIMATE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF UG LEVEL STUDENTS: AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT

The present paper tries to examine the impact of school climate on academic achievement of secondary level students of Paschim Medinipur district, W.B. The main purpose of this study is to find out the impact of school climate on academic achievement of students. In this regard a standardised adopted Bengali version questionnaire of school environment scale Alexandra A. Bochaver , Aleksei A. Korneev and Kirill D. Khlomov with 22 items was used to collect reliable data from the under graduate level students. Convenient purposive sampling technique was used. Only 82 samples were collected of Paschim Medinipur district. Different statistical techniques like Mean. SD, Pearson correlation and t-test were used to analyse the collected data. Result of this study showed that significant and positive relationship exists between school climate and academic achievement. No significant difference found between boys and girls in terms school climate. But significant difference exists between APL and BPL, general and others secondary level students in terms school climate.