The currentcontroversies over educational practices, past and present, European and American, have produced many heated debates and discussions. While many of the issues brought up have not been resolved, there appear to be two important, consistently stated, and agreed upon beliefs which were significant in developing this study: (1) the desirability of a careful examination and evaluation of all phases of our public school program, and (2) the need for trained guidance counselors and organized guidance programs in the public secondary schools.These would seem to suggest further that the study of current guidance programs would be in order and a number and variety of these have been and are continuing to be undertaken at the local, state, and national levels. However, these studies and evaluations have, for the most part, been undertaken from the adult, staff, guidance specialist, and occasionally parent, viewpoint. This survey represents an attempt to study this phase of the school program from the viewpoint of the group most directly affected—the students, with the belief that an understanding of pupil information about, attitudes toward, and utilization of their school guidance programs would be significant to guidance counselors in secondary school programs and, also, could present implications for counselor trainers directing college training programs in counselor preparatio