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The main purpose of the present study is to find out the level of science achievement among higher secondary school students and compare achievement between; male and female; government, deficit and private schools. This study is very important because, the first National Achievement Survey which was conducted by NCERT in 2015 reported that the average performance of class X students in the State was significantly lower than the National average in Science subject and stated that the need for improvement of 64.8 % in the said subject. Further, it was reported in the study of Regional Plan and Status of Science Education in Schools in North Eastern Region (NER, 2016-17) by NEDFi with IIT Guwahati & Homi Bhabha Centre for Science education, TIFR, Mumbai that the performance of students in Science in the NE region was a cause for concern and the State scored lower than the regional average. Achievement test in Science developed and standardized by Dr SC Gakhar and Dr Rajnish was employed and distributed to 298 students from the government, deficit and private schools. Primary and secondary data were analyzed by using SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 17.0. Level of achievement in Science among higher secondary students was very low, 95.64% fell under below average level. No significant difference in Science achievement was found between female and male students. Moreover, there was no significant difference between government and private school students, but there existed a significant difference between deficit and government as well as deficit and private schools. Students from deficit school outperformed both government and private schools. The author suggested that science teachers should use collaborative-learning activities and social modelling to promote students� interest, motivation, and achievement in science career. Learner-centered teaching-learning methodologies such as activity-based learning and laboratory experiments in Science should be employed to build students attitudes towards Science subject.