The objectives of the study were: (1) Construction and standardization of perception of school climate scale and assessment of the levels of student’s perception. (2) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and socio – economic status of the students. (3) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and family climate of the students. (4) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and intelligence of the students. (5) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and self – concept of the students. (6) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and years of stay in school by the students. (7) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and academic achievement of the students. (8) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and types of school. (9) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and different streams of study in school. (10) To study the relationship between perception of school climate and sex of the students.

The hypothesis of the study were: (1) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and socio – economic status of the students. (2) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and family – climate of the students. (3) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and intelligence of the students. (4) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and separately dimensions of self – concept of the students. (5) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and years of stay in school of the students. (6) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and academic achievement of the students. (7) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and types of school (U.P. board, ICSE and CBSE) of the students. (8) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and streams of study (Arts, Science and Commerce) of the students. (9) There is no relationship between perception of school climate and sex of the students.

The sample comprised of 527 Students of Class XI from 9 different Schools of Lucknow. It was selected with the help of Random Sampling Technique.

Socio – Economic Status Scale by Kuppuswamy (1962), Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test (1983), Swatava Bodh Parikshan by Sherry, Verma & Goswami (1979) were used for collecting the data. Perception of School Climate (Odd – even reliability coefficients ranged for different dimensions from 0.56 to 0.95) and Family Questionnaire developed by Researcher were used for data collection.

The data were analyzed with the help of t-test and Chi – Square Test.

The findings of the study were: (1) SES show no relationship with school perception for these group. (2) Higher the perception of school climate, higher is the score on family climate. (3) High level of intelligence goes hand in hand with high level of school perception. (4) The students with high self – concept have good perception of the school climate. (5) Boys’ sample had no relationship between school perception and years of stay in school but only show some relationship where girls with longer years of stay perceive school climate poorly. (6) There exists some relationship between perception of school climate & academic achievement. (7) Type of school has a relationship with perception of school climate for combined and girls sample but not for the boys sample. (8) The streams of study and school climate are not independent of each other. (9) Girls perceive their school climate significantly more positively compared to the boys.