Even though geography is a crucial subject for choosing a career, some high school students still struggled with it. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the variables influencing poor geography performance. The study was conducted in Kiambu County's Kamenu Ward. The following objectives served as the basis for the research: to determine how learning resources related to poor geography performance in public secondary schools, to find out how students' factors affected their poor performance in geography classes at public secondary schools, and to find out how attitude affected a student's poor performance in geography classes. The targeted population was at two public secondary schools in Kamenu Ward, with 50 form four geography students and 60 form three students in each school. The survey was guided by a descriptive research design, which used questionnaires and interviews. One principal, three geography teachers, the D/Os, and 68 students (45 form fours and 23 form threes in each school) made up the sample size of 112 respondents. Each respondent had a chance to be included in the study thanks to the simple random approach that was used. Pretesting took place in one school, and the study tools were a questionnaire and interview. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) computer application was used to analyze the data; as a result, the data was presented in table form and graphs