Anxiety affects the performance of students. The socio- economic status is another parameter which adds stress among students as they used to compare their living standards among themselves. In the present study an attempt has been made to find out the relationship between socio-economic status and academic anxiety level of higher secondary school students of Balangir Ditrict of Odisha. I is found that socio- economic status significantly affected the academic anxiety of higher secondary school students. Further academic anxiety is not dependent on the gender and type of school. In this study 50 boys and 50 girls students from two Government and two private school of class eleventh have been considered for research study.