This study examined the parent-child closeness and the associations between that and social relationships, including bullying and victimization in the school community perceived by pupils. The participants consisted of 145 fourth and fifth graders in two different schools (response rate 76 %). Data were collected by structured questionnaires in autumn 2007. The results indicated that pupils found their relationships close to both parents. However, they reported statistically significantly higher closeness to the mother than to the father. The fourth graders assessed the relationships with teachers to be better than the fifth graders. The higher parent-child closeness was reported, the more positive were also rated the teacher-student and student-student relationships. Boys were bullying more often than girls but boys were bullied almost as often as girls. Girls who were not bullied reported their relationship to both mother and father statistically significantly closer than girls who had been bullied. Among boys no such differences were found.