There is a growing body of literature and research on social capital and its relationship to education and the educational performance of students. Social capital is seen as the element that holds communities together, without which society as a whole would collapse. In line with this, the political and educational stakeholders have proposed social capital as a solution to persistent social problems in a progressive manner. This study looked into how the social capital of parents can improve students' academic performance in public secondary schools in the Gauteng province, Pretoria District, South Africa. In order to address the research problem, the study used the quantitative research approach to collect quantitative data. This study used a correlational design and made use of questionnaires from established tools to gauge social capital. A total of 60 students from two secondary schools in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa, participated in the study. The questions focused on four variables: parent social guidance, parent academic status, parent social capital, and parent academic effort. The dependent variable is educational achievement, which was the termly achievement record collected from the school exams and records administrators. The study concludes that parental academic effort is a strong determinant of academic achievement.

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