<![CDATA[Family socioeconomic disparities are often regarded as a primary barrier to students' academic achievement, prompting the government to introduce scholarship programs such as the Indonesia Pintar Program (PIP) to alleviate this burden. Nevertheless, few studies have directly examined whether such financial assistance truly equalizes the learning outcomes of scholarship recipients with those of students who fund their own education, particularly at the vocational secondary school level. This study, therefore, aims to determine the academic achievement levels of both scholarship recipients and non?recipients in the Accounting and Institutional Finance Competency at SMK Negeri 9 Semarang, as well as to test whether the difference between the two groups is statistically significant. A quantitative comparative approach was employed, involving a sample of 80 eleventh? and twelfth?grade students 35 scholarship recipients and 45 non recipients selected through quota sampling, with interviews conducted with teachers and students to provide supporting data. Third?semester report card scores were analyzed using the Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test, Levene's homogeneity test, and an independent?sample t?test. The results showed that the mean score of scholarship recipients was 86.02, while that of non?recipients was 87.32, both falling into the "very good" category. The t?test yielded a value of t = –3.459 with a significance of p = 0.001 (p < 0.05), indicating a statistically significant difference, with non?scholarship students performing slightly higher. These findings suggest that financial aid is able to raise the achievement of students from underprivileged families to a level approaching that of their more advantaged peers, yet it has not fully closed the gap rooted in family socioeconomic conditions.]]>
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