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Mental health plays an important role at every stage of life. However mental health is significant at adolescent as it this time on takes on new adults in family and peers, to experiment with things symbolic with adult's life, and to raise question about the family and societal roles and customs. Mental health influence on adolescent choose to express the developmental tasks, the frequency and the intensity with which it is done, and it does not just affect the personal health of individual but it can also be affected by individual's own traits. In present study investigator found that the mental health plays a very important role in the every field. The study applied in 300 students studying in senior secondary school by using Mental Health Battery (MHB) constructed by Arun Kumar Singh, Department of Psychology Patna University Patna and Alpana Sen Gupta, Department of Psychology, College of Commerce (M.U) Patna. To study the institution-wise difference in mental health of school going adolescents the statistical technique 't'-test was employed. After 't'-test the result shows that there is significant institution-wise difference in overall mental health of school going adolescents. Adolescents studying in government institutions possess significantly higher level of overall mental health than the adolescents studying in private institutions.