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Background: By using physical activity questionnaire-adolescent (PAQ-A) we can measure the physical activity level in school children and academic achievement. Aims and objective: to find out correlation between physical fitness and academic achievement in school children. Methodology: 297 subjects were taken; all subjects were allotted a questionnaire and explained how to fill it. The physical activity of subjects were found with the help of physical activity questionnaire-adolescent (PAQ-A) to find out the level of physical activity from the last 7 days includes sports or dance and other activities. Result: The updated data were collected for physical activity questionnaire. descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation of age. Frequency percentage of gender and standard were analyses by pie chart. Conclusion: Physical fitness in children is important but they tend to lead a sedentary life due to burden of studies and excessive use of modern technology for entertainment. This study concludes that there is decrease in the physical activity and academic achievement.