Determinants of learning quality of students in Private Schools in Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh in India

There are many factors that affect private school students’ learning quality. These include monthly expenditure, parents’ education, parents’ occupations, medium of study, the rural urban divide, etc. The present study is based on a primary survey in the Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh. Five blocks out of 19 were surveyed. The present study interviewed 500 private school students in their homes. To investigate the relationship between learning quality of students and monthly expenditure on students, parents’ occupation, and parents’ education, the study used the Chi-squared test (Bivariate analysis) and Logistic Regression Model. The analysis shows that about 13 per cent of students in class-III could not read a paragraph in English. The analysis also showed that more than 60 per cent of class-VI and class-VIII students could not solve the division problem. The study indicated that the children of such parents who have graduation and a degree above had a learning quality score 3.6 times more than the students whose parents had no education. The study revealed that students whose parents were labourers had half the learning quality as those whose parents were in the service or business sectors. The learning quality of those whose parents spend more than Rs 1000 per month is seven times that of those whose parents spend less than Rs. 500 a month.