Table 1 Discrepancy of more than two grades T ne ta ble indicates that 42.5% of test-takers from SPH had a discrepancy of more than two grades on their WRAT-1. Thus, grade 6students would achieve at the level of grade 4students or below in reading, figures. T spelling and maths sums. Most test-takers had difficulties in reading leading to elevated he discrepancy level from SPH respondents was too high as compared to their counterparts from DPH. Their discrepancy level was lower on all the WRAT-1 subsets, i.e., on maths, reading and spel ing with a 32.5%. This concludes that students from DPH had a better performance than students from SPH rese arch , indicating that SP does affect a child’s academic capability. These results support other that has been carried out on the similar topic with Huebsch et al.(2013) implying that ‘a child’s well-being is fully functional when the father and mother are present in the life of a child, giving