Abstract- The performance of students in higher education in
India is a turning point in the academics for all students for
their brightest career. In today’s generation the amount of
data stored in educational database increasing at a great rate.
These databases contain secret information for improvement
of students’ performance; these data can be located at different
nodes in distributed system. Classification and prediction are
among the major techniques in Data mining and widely used in
various fields. In this paper classification techniques are used
for prediction of student performance in distributed
environment. Data mining methods are often implemented at
many advance universities today for analyzing available data
and extracting information and knowledge to support decisionmaking.While
it is important to have models at local level,
their results makes it difficult to extract knowledge that can be
useful at the global level. Therefore, to support decision
making at this area, it is important to generalize the
information contained in those models, specific classifier
method can be used to generalize these rules for global model