Social Emotional well-being has been considered as an important process for developing the essential skills,attitudes, competencies and knowledge to learn and gain the holistic development of the personality. Even theNew Education Policy talks about the crucial need of Social Emotional Skills at an early stage of children tolive a happy and balanced life. The purpose of this paper is to explore Social emotional well-being (SEC) amongelementary school students of Punjab School Education Board (P.S.E.B.) and to compare the rural and urbanschools of Amritsar district. The nature of study is descriptive in nature and survey method has been used. Forinvestigation a sample of 200 elementary school students from rural and urban government schools of Amritsardistrict has been taken by using simple random technique. For the collection of data social emotional wellbeing/competence scale was used which was developed by the investigator. The interpretation and analysis ofthe results was done by using t-test method. Findings of the study revealed that social emotional well-beingdoesn’t depend upon type of school. There exists no significant difference on the basis of type of school. It is alsofound that boys in rural and urban areas are more socially emotionally competent as compare to girls.