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The study examined teacher-student relationship and class size as determinants of students academic performance in Agricultural Science. The population of this study consisted of all students that offer agricultural science in all public secondary schools in Eket senatorial district of Akwa Ibom State. The study adopted Expost-facto Research design while simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents. The instrument for data collection which was tagged “teacher-student relationship and class size as determinants of students academic performance in agricultural science (TRCSDSAPAS)” was administered to the respondents and used for the study. The instrument was vetted by an expert in the field before the reliability test was conducted which produced the reliability coefficient of 0.76 proving the instrument to be reliable for the study. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis and independent t-test analysis. From the results of the data analysis, it was observed and concluded that teacher-student relationship contributes immensely to the students academic performance in agricultural science. Also, effective class size contributes immensely to good academic performance of agricultural science students. It was therefore recommended that for a greater learning and higher academic performance in agricultural science, teachers should create a good conducive environment to their students so that the students can have easy access to them when there is need for that.