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The objective of this study is to establish a relationship between the demotivation of students, the lack of parental guidance and the academic failure of primary and secondary students in the District of Yamoussoukro. For this purpose, a convenience sample was used to collect the opinions of students, school administration and parents of students. To collect the data, we used a number of research techniques such as, desk research, direct and participant observation, interview and questionnaire. For data analysis, we combined mixed quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The results reveal both at the level of the pupils, the school administration and the parents of pupils, evoke as proof elements of the school failure of the primary as of the secondary of the psycho-emotional suffering, estrangements, moves, family divorces and certain scholastic problems of which the bad perception that they are going away from scientific subjects. Also we have listed through our analysis, common dimensions between the different courses. We have found an important relationship between these dimensions, which we consider to be risk factors for the complex phenomenon of school failure.