Changing the perception of students on their roles in community and national development will take more than the teacher engaging the students in the classroom to achieve. The teacher will need to engage the students in community services that have impact in the life of the community they reside in. This study assessed the perception of the Civic Education pre-service teachers on their engagement in community service during the course of their study. The study set out to examine the perception of pre-services Civic Education teachers on the usefulness of community service and identify the contributions of community service projects to pre-service teachers’ development of personal skills. Two research questions were raised for the study. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised 300 level Social Studies students of a public tertiary institution in Ogun state, Nigeria. One hundred and twenty five (125) students were selected to form the sample for the study using stratified sampling technique. The main instrument used to obtain Received: 09.10.2023 Accepted: 11.10.2023 Published on: 30.10.2023 Corresponding: Author: Soluadeola@gmail.com M47E9 TROPOLITAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ISSN: 1813-4270 Vol. 2 Issue 7, October - 2023, Pages: 478-483 information for the study was a fourteen (14) item questionnaire titled “Students’ Perception on Community Service Questionnaire” (SPCSQ) (r = 0.89). Data collected were coded and analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings showed that the urge to contribute to a better society encourages majority of the students to participate in the project, community service is very useful to the community, addresses the community need and relevant to Civic Education programme. It also helps to develop major degree of competency in the participants. Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers of Civic Education should always engage the students in services that are beneficial to the community and Civic Education teachers should always earnest the potentials of community service as it can help students to develop positive skills and gain more knowledge while on their field work.