This research aims to know the nutritional status of primary school students Land 17 Parak Karakah Subdistrict East Padang in Padang City. This research is descriptive research, using primary data and secondary data. The population in this research is the entire elementary school students Land 17 Parak Karakah Subdistrict East Padang in Padang City totalling 143 people. Sampling using Random Sampling techniques "(random sampling) that is 20%. Then didapatlah the number of samples as many as 29 people. To determine the nutritional status of students using the formula IMT = w/TB2 for engineering data analysis i.e. analysis descriptive P = f/n × 100%. Based on analysis of data then the research results obtained that from 29 samples of elementary school students Land 17 Parak Karakah Subdistrict East Padang in Padang City then retrieved 4 people (13.79) category is very thin, 13 people (44.83) category, 7 people (24.14) the categories of normal, 3 people (10.34) category of fat, 2 persons (6.89) categories of obesity. So elementary school students Land 17 Parak Karakah Subdistrict East Padang in Padang City nutritional status by category student category is thin because of the nutritional status of students as much as owned 44.83% were in the category of thin.