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The purpose of the present study is to define the profile of Eighth Class Students and to examine the social capital and student achievements level of students with respect to some demographic variables. In this study, Social Capital Scale which was developed by Huang (2008) and adapted to Turkish population by Ardahan and Ezici (2014) and achievement inventory developed by Bilgin and Kaynak (2008) were used. This is a descriptive study and sampling group consisted of 162 girls, 163 boys and totally 325 students who were studying in the five different schools (three states, two private schools) which have different environments. In order to analyze the data, the descriptive statistics methods, ANOVA test, and Independent Samples t test, for correlation Pearson Correlation Test and to explain relation between dependent and independent variables Tukey-b test was used. Results have been assessed according to significant levels 0.01 and 0.05. As a result of this study, the strong correlation was found between social capital level in all sub dimension also) and students achievements. It is vitally important that social capital must be accepted as an investment and must be examined to increase the level of it. When social capital level of a student or society was increased, achievements would follow it. On the other hand, there was statistically meaningful difference between school types on the student’s achievements level in favor of schools which has disadvantages environment and which students family has low income or which have made adequate investment for students achievements. The parents who has lower education level and lower income level, forces the student to establish adequate or more relation with teacher to make compensation of academic support which cannot be realized in family or social environment of students. When family attendance to school and the quality and satisfaction level of parent-student’s relation increase, it affects positively the student’s achievement

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