School Culture Governance Towards Creating Academic Performance in Gatid Elementary School, District of Santa Cruz in the Division of Laguna

Basically, this study was designed and conducted to determine the school culture governance in
creating academic performance. It was administered to assess the level of school culture in terms of
collectivism, power distance and long-term orientation as well as the assessment level of school
performance in terms of retention and drop-out rate. Likewise, the significant difference in the level
of teachers on school culture and school performance had been identified. Subsequently, the
significant relationship between the level of school culture and school performance was also
established in this study. The respondents were from Gatid Elementary School, Santa Cruz District,
Division of Laguna. They were composed of fortyseven (47) teachers and their school head. As this
study made use of a descriptive correlational design in research. Teachers were asked to answer
survey questionnaire about their profile. They rated their own school in different school culture. The
principal was asked to provide the data of school performance for the school year 2020. Descriptive
method, also known as statistical research, that describes data and characteristics about the
population or phenomenon being studied was used This research method is used for frequencies,
averages and other statistical calculations. This kind of research involves assessing the opinion from
the respondents through normative survey, questionnaires, interviews and observations. A survey
that establishes an organized attempt to analyze, interpret and report present status of the institution
or group or areas. The purpose of this is to acquire a group of classified, generalized and interpreted
data for the future guidance and practice of person’s responsibilities and interest. T-test was used in
this study which is a type of inferential statistic used to determine if there is a significant difference
between the means of two groups, which maybe related in certain features. It is one of many test
used for the purpose of hypothesis testing in statistics. In this study, this was used to estimate
relationships between a dependent variable and one or more variables in this study. In each indicator
of the dependent variables, mean and standard deviation were determined to get the tvalue and
significance in order to know the status of school culture in Gatid Elementary School in three
dimensions: collectivism, power distance, and long-term orientation. On school’s performance
across culture governance, regression was applied in which t-value and p-value for the level of
significance were derived. Then, f-test and the significance were identified to support the hypothesis.
By giving a closer look on the school culture governance and its relationship to the performance of
the school, the findings of the study can be useful to the school heads and teachers as well. The
school head can create and intensify positive school cultures providing a safe, supportive,
encouraging, inviting, and challenging environment for students and staff, which in turn allows
students’ academic achievement to evolve. The teachers would realize how school culture can
contribute to their motivation to work hard and perform the task assigned to them. This may help
them work hand in hand to contribute to the propagation of culture that the school would like to
inculcate for the betterment of the school and of the individual pupils enrolled. They will become
aware of the things still needed to help the school in their community to deliver quality education.
This may also benefit future researchers by looking into the possibility of doing further research on
a wider view by including all teachers in more schools to establish better findings.