ABSTRACT

The school is a powerful institution in the development of behaviour of the child. It is a miniature society in which children live, make interactions and perform function under the supervision of their teachers. The school is a socializing institution which differs from the family. The development of child is influenced by various factors of school like size, population, age, type of school and most importantly its social culture. The present study was undertaken to study the school environment and academic achievement of government and private secondary school students. The sample of the study comprised of 240 (120 government and 120 private) secondary school students which were selected randomly from 16 schools of district Srinagar. School Environment Inventory developed by Misra, K. S. (2012) was used for data collection. For Academic Achievement, aggregate percentage of marks obtained in previous examination was used. Results revealed that private secondary school students differ significantly on ‘Acceptance’ dimension of school environment while as on composite score both government and private secondary school students do not differ significantly. Further, private secondary school students showed higher academic performance than government school students.