This study investigated the students’ academic performance in physics as a correlate of their academic performance in mathematics in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. Out of the population of 220 secondary schools, 5-year result from the 5 schools were selected using hat and draw method. Multistage sampling of purposive and random sampling was used. Purposive sampling was used to select only schools that offer physics at SSCE and random sampling of hat and draw was used to give equal chance for each school ownership to participate in the study. The 5 schools yielded 225 physics and mathematics WAEC results for the study. Descriptive statistics of percentage was used to answer the first and second research questions and correlation was used to answer the third. Pearson (r) correlation was converted t in order to test the hypothesis at a 0.05 level of significance. Based on the adopted WAEC scale, a score of 58 % for students’ performance in physics and 57.9% for students’ performance in mathematics respectively indicated a Credit pass in students’ performance in the subjects. The third research question which was on the correlation between students’ academic performance in Physics and Mathematics showed a Correlation coefficient for r=0.6 across 5 years studied. The correlation coefficient (r) converted to t-value yielded a t-cal. of 5.08 and a t-crit. of 2.02. This showed that the correlation was significant. Based on the findings of the study the research recommends that teachers should improve physics students’ performance in the subject by exposing them to mathematical problems involving formulae and calculations. Also just like mathematics is learnt at lower basic education, physics should also be taught at the elementary level of education.