keywords: Attendance’s system, Information and communication technology, Local server, School information management, Post-primary, Truancy
Education systems of developing countries are improving with the help of information and communication technology ICT. Recent example is blended learning that is becoming popular in higher institution because of COVID-19. Meanwhile, truancy is becoming a lingering problem in post-primary school in Nigeria contributing to decline in academic performance and increase in social vices. Hence, this paper aimed at developing a post-primary school information management system that will help post-primary schools to keep track of students’ attendance and results with an improved computerised system. It was experimented using local server for implementation and hosting, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL, CSS JavaScript and php are programming languages, while HTML is a markup language. The developed system granted different privileges were given to different users, and grant access to students and parents or guardian to view and monitor the attendance and the results through a web platform in order to curb truancy among post-primary school students.