Abstract
<p>The research was designed to find out effect of school location and gender-difference on the performance of secondary school students in Mathematics in Gombe Local Government. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested using t-test at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Stratified and purposive sampling techniques were used to select six (6) Schools, simple random sampling was used to select seven hundred and fifty (750) West African Senior School Certificate Examination results of students from the schools for a period of five years. Results showed that there was significant effect of School -location and gender difference on the performance of students in Mathematics and there was significant difference between the performance of urban and rural as well as between male and female students. The recommendations and implication of the findings of to the educational development in Nigeria were also highlighted.</p><p><br></p>