Sports is any activity that you do for pleasure and that needs physical effort or skill, usually done in a special area and according to fixed rules this paper discussed the influence of sport participation on students’ academic performance in public secondary schools in Dutsin-Ma metropolis of Katsina State. Survey research design was utilized in this study. The population of this study consist of 1, 574 students, 430 teachers and 7 public secondary schools in Dutsin-Ma metropolis. For the purpose of this study, purposive sampling technique was adopted and five (5) public secondary schools were selected in Dutsin-ma Metropolis. One hundred (100) teachers were selected as respondent from the 5 selected secondary schools. A self-developed, structured and validated questionnaire was used to elicit the desired information regarding influence of sports participation on students’ academic performance of secondary schools in Dutsin-ma metropolis. The findings in Table-2 show that health benefits of sport participation on academics performance is positive and not negative with mean responses below 2.50 in item 1 and 3 and with mean responses above 2.50 in item 2,4 and 5. It was concluded that students who participate in sports aspire more to come to school and remain in class. It recommended that sports and games should be given proper allocation of time in the school time table. The principals must ensure this.