Social Media Usage Among Senior High School Learners and Their Academic Achievement

The main objective of the study was to describe the impact of social media usage among senior high school learners in terms of academics, socialization, entertainment and informativeness; to determine the academic achievement of senior high school learners; and to correlate the relationship between social media usage and academic achievement of senior high school learners. The respondents of the study were 80 senior high school learners in Quezon I District, Division of Bukidnon, school year 2024-2025. Random sampling was employed to select the learners from San Jose Integrated School in Quezon I District. The instrument for the study on the social media usage of senior high school learners was adapted from Conquilla et al. (2021), and the instrument on the academic achievement of senior high school following the Department of Education Order No. 8, s. 2015, “Policy Guidelines on Classroom Assessment for the K-12 Basic Education Program,” prescribe grading system. For the data analysis procedure, descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the level of social media usage in terms of academics, socialization, entertainment, and informativeness. Frequency and percentage distributions were employed to assess academic achievement levels. Pearson correlation analysis was utilized to determine the relationship between social media usage and academic achievement. Descriptive analysis measures the level of social media usage of senior high school learners in terms of academics, socialization, entertainment and informativeness is highly utilized, that is, great extent on the responses of the learners. It is essential to note that the level of academic achievement of senior high school learners indicates that a significant proportion of learners excel academically, reflecting strong academic achievement of learners achieving outstanding and very satisfactory academic performance. Correlation results indicated that there is no significant relationship between social media usage and the academic achievement of senior high school learners, considering academics, socialization and informative. However, only the social media usage of senior high school learners in terms of entertainment has a significant relationship with the academic achievement of senior high school learners.