Influence of cultural norms on student academic performance in Marsabit Central Sub-County

Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommends schools to organize academic clinics, mentorship programmes, strengthen guidance and counseling and peer counseling in schools, and the government to address shortage of teachers, insecurity, government tuition subsidy remittance on time, provision of infrastructural facilities to enable learning, need for sensitization of the community on importance of school and alternate measures on when and how to go about their cultural traditional norms and avail basic resources like water in schools. These were the substratum influence affecting the learner’s performance.