The.main purpose of this study was to compare urban and rural school students' attitudes toward physical education in case of A \H\S and Z\H\S. The attitude of urban and rural school students toward physical education were investigated based on school location, - gender difference and grade level and some factors affecting students' attitude towards physical education. To this end, two hundred-three students (N=203) selected by using stratified random sampling in considering the proportion of gender and grade level for stratification. Besides this, adequate amount of data were collected by using two data collection tools. Predominantly questionnaires were used as a major data collection instrument and open ended and closed ended were included under it. The questionnaire was piloted for reliability and validity. However, in order to assure the reliability used cronbach alpha. Moreover, interview with Six physical education teachers (N=6) selected by using purposive sampling. The closed ended questionnaire with likert scale collected aata was employed in independent sample t-test using SPSS (V-20 statistical package).The level of significance chosen was 0.05. More over the interview and open ended questionnaires interpreted using percentage, count and descriptive statements. The study revealed that 1) there is a significant difference that urban high school students had more positiv._e attitudes towards physical education than rural high school students with regarding total score and in terms of physical education curriculum, physical education enjoyment, sport facility and equipment but in terms of students attitude towards physical equipment. ' Abstract ' .education teacher_ rural students had more favorable than urban students and in terms of peer. and parent' influence both have similar attitude. 2) No significant difference between male and female students 3) no significant difference between grade 9th and 101h students. 4) As per the finding of the study, students' attitude towards physical education slightly decrease due to uncomfortable weather condition, curriculum related problem, uncomfortable class atmosphere, teacher related problem, lack of sport facilities and

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