“Taking care of one's mental health is just as important as one's physical health.” As part of one’s overall health, mental and emotional health or well being is a necessary condition to enable one to manage one’s life successfully. Mental health is the emotional and spiritual resilience that allows one to enjoy life and to survive pain, suffering, and disappointment. It is a positive sense of well being and an underlying belief in one’s own and others’ dignity and worth.The main aim of the study is to find out the mental health and level of adjustment among the Government & Private school students. Some of the objectives are to find out the level of mental health status of the respondents and the level of adjustment among government and private school students, compare the level of mental health and adjustment problems of the respondents, and provide recommendations and suggestions to the school students to cope with their adjustment problems and enhance their mental health. The research was conducted in Vadavalli area, Coimbatore District, with 150 samples. Disproportionate Stratified Random Sampling was used for this study. The findings will be discussed in the full paper.