Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental steward and participate in creating a brighter future for our children. The study aimed to examine environmental awareness among high school students. From the Erode district, ten schools were selected by stratified random sampling technique. the sample of the study is the students who were studying in ninth standard of high schools 300 IX standard students were taken in this study. The study found that there is a significant difference between Tamil and English medium students in their mean score of environmental awareness.

KEYWORDS: Environmental Awareness, High School Student’s.