The article analyses the formation of senior school students in the educational school setting which reflects modern market tendencies. One of the priorities of directions in Russia has become the process of digitalization of the education of late. It creates the digital educational setting and the use of the possibilities of digital technologies in implementing the improvement of education quality. The authors underline that in modern conditionsthe necessity to form the senior school students’ economic culture is actualized by the fact that the economic education is created in school built on the proactive principals which are taking place in the society and closely connected with the fact that the school is becoming digital. In this connection exactly digital technologies which are mentioned by the government of Russia as a way to solve the educational tasks which are not solved or badly solved on the basis of traditional technologies. To find out how to carry out the formation of the senior school students’ economic culture under conditions of digital economy. Method and methodology of work performance: scientific-pedagogical grounds for research served as a set of initial theoretical justifications: key provisions of cultural and learner centered approach for the description of characters and types of teaching and learning activities of school students; provisions of competency based approach to describe the essence of competency being in the structure of senior school students economic culture; ideas of individually oriented education to find out patterns of senior school students’ economic culture’s formation in conditions of development of digital economy. Results: The development of the education system under condition of the digital economy presents new approaches to comprehension and the formation of new economic culture. The field of application of results: results of the study may be applied in the scientific research and in the teaching of courses of pedagogy, social pedagogy, comparative pedagogy and in career guidance in pedagogical higher and secondary institutions as well as in the system of staff training.