Introduction: Children are particularly vulnerable to infections, injuries, and deficiency disorders due to their poor nutritional status, lack of proper hygiene, and care. Majority of the cases of ophthalmianeonatorum and keratomalacia are seen in this class of people even though they are easily preventable by early intervention timely institution of proper remedial measures and effective methods of prophylaxis and treatment. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study carried out in schools for children aged 5 – 15 years to know the prevalence of refractive errors. The sample size was 1012 which included both boys and girls. Predesigned semi structured questionnaire was prepared as study tool Results: Out of 1012 students, 39 had refractive errors and among them 71.8% of students had myopia, 20.5% students had hypermetropia and 7.69% of students had astigmatism Conclusion: The type of refractive errors seen in both boys and girls in the decreasing order was found to be myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism.

Keywords: Refractive Errors; School Screening; Myopia.