Abstract

The study examined professional counsellors and class/subjects teachers’ perception of school connectedness on class skippers' mental health and SDG four in Lagos State. The study was a descriptive survey design with 104 counsellors and teachers (15.0% were professional counsellors, while (85.0%) were class teachers/subject teachers) as the study participants. The sample was purposively selected from twenty schools covering four out of the six education districts in Lagos State and SUBEB.A self-structured questionnaire on the Counsellors/Teachers' perception of school connectedness on the class skippers' mental health and SDG four, was used as the research instrument with Cronbach alpha reliability of 0.86.The data collected were analysed with mean scores and one-sample t-test with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 21.0, at 0.05 level of significance. Four hypotheses were tested. The study results showed that mental health has significant effects on their school connectedness, and students' school connectedness has significant effects on their class skipping habit and the education for all policy. It is recommended that all schools should have at least a professional counsellor that could work on the enhancement of the school connectedness of the students.