Effects of Student’s Extracurricular Activities to School’s Internal Efficiency: Basis for School Improvement Management Plan

This study sought to investigate the effects of students’ extracurricular activities to school’s internal efficiency as basis for formulating School Improvement Management Plan. The researcher utilized the self-made questionnaire among the ten (10) secondary schools of DepEd Alabat, Perez and Quezon in the 4th Congressional District of Quezon, with six teacher participants comprised of school heads and organization advisers in each school. Regression Analysis and Descriptive Evaluative method were used as statistical tool. Hence, it was revealed that the extracurricular activities implemented in school are generally more practiced. For the last three school years 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022, school enrolment rate is 838.00, 829, 824.30 and 828.30, respectively. The school dropout rate is 0.78%, 1.58%, 0.81% and 0.51%, respectively. The school completion rate is 98.86%, 97.46%, 96.71% and 96.78%, respectively. The significant effect of the conduct of extracurricular activities to the school internal efficiency for enrolment rate for student governance (0.463), community service (0.550), youth formation (0.634), and academic clubs (0.950); dropout rate for student governance (0.630), community service (0.924), youth formation (0.919), and academic clubs (0.736); completion rate for student governance (0.857), community service (0.235), youth formation (0.192) and academic clubs (0.804) failed to reject the null hypothesis and mark as not significant. It can be noted that extracurricular activities and school efficiency foster both benefit to the learners and the school. Further, school management need to focus more on developing strategies to promote the school efficiency and craft more interactive activities to create harmonious learning environment to learners and build a strong pedagogy for the community.