Nations whether developed or developing, poor or rich are of the opinion today that the conservation and proper utilization of the creative potential are too important for national development. The present study was designed to ascertain the difference in the levels of creativity among students with respect to independent and dependent variables i.e, Type of (government-private) and creativity. The study was conducted in district pulwama and Srinagar and data was collected from 185 students studying in grade viii using random sampling method in order to collect the information about impact of type of school on the creativity of the students. The data thus gathered have been put to appropriate statistical techniques. In order to test the significance of difference between mean scores ‘t’ test was used. The findings of the study reveal that private school students excel their counterparts of govt.school students in creativity significantly. The findings of the study point at the fact that private schools provide enriched educational settings them that of govtschools.