ABSTRACT
The study investigated the planning of educational resources for school effectiveness in selected secondary schools in Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. The study equally reviewed some important and extensive literatures under sub-headings. The descriptive research survey design was applied in the assessment of respondents’ opinions towards the subject matter. In this study, five null hypotheses were formulated and tested with the application of the chi square and independent t-test and the Pearson Product Moment Correltional Coefficient Statistical tools at 0.05 significance level. Also, the simple percentage frequency counts was used to analyse the questionnaire response of the selected respondents together with the research questions. A total of 100 (two hundred) respondents, 20 (twenty) teachers and 80 (eighty) students were selected for this study. At the end of the data analyses, the following results were obtained thus: that there is a significant relationship between educational planning and utilization of educational resources in the school, that there is a significant relationship between planning of educational resources and their implementation in the school, that there is a significant relationship between educational resources planning and teachers’ productivity in the school, that there is a significant relationship between teachers’ experience and educational resources planning, and that there is no significant gender difference in the academic achievement of students due to educational resources planning. Based on the conclusions reached at the end of this study, the following recommendations are made by the researcher: Nigerian educational plans should be short-term based. This will enable educational planners to solve short-term educational issues and manpower planning and educational development should be the watchwords of Nigerian educational managers.