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ABSTRACT

This study was to assess the perimeter fencing and school security as an empirical survey of the experience of the secondary school administrators and teachers. Ex-Post Facto research design was adopted for the study. The study area was Imo state. The population of the study comprised school administrators and teachers in Imo state. A stratified sampling technique was used to select 20 principals, 40 vice principal and 240 teachers from the study area and these gave a sample size of 300 respondents which constituted the sample size for the study. The Main Instrument used in this study was a questionnaire titled “Perimeter Fencing and School Security Questionnaire (PFSSQ)”. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out to ensure that the instrument had the accuracy for study under consideration. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.88 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics and simple regression. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha levels. The study concluded that schools indicated different levels of security via perimeter fencing with very low extent of availability of perimeter fencing. The result also proved that the level of the extent of school security is low. Finally, it was observed that there is significant influence of perimeter fencing on school security in secondary school in Imo State. One of the recommendations was that school administrators should take specific care related to “securing, perimeter fencing and limiting access points to the school.

KEYWORDS: Perimeter Fencing, School Security, School Administrators and Teachers and Imo State