The study aims to assess the study habits of residential and non-residential school children in Dharwad taluk during the year 2014-15. Through random sampling method 240 children were selected from 8th, 9th and 10th standards. The study habits inventory developed by Mathur (2002) and socio-economic status scale by Aggarwal et al. (2005) were used to assess the study habits and socio-economic status of school children. Results revealed that majority of children from residential school (68.3%) had good study habits than non-residential (55%) school children. Significant difference was observed between ordinal position and study habits of residential and non-residential children, whereas age, gender and standard has no significant influence on study habits of children