The present study was conducted with a view to investigate the relation in academic achievement and intelligence among physical education students of government and private schools. The sample consisted of 150 students from senior secondary schools from Muktsar city. Academic achievement scores were taken from the office report cards of the different schools and verbal intelligence test developed by R.K.Ohja and K.rayChowdhary (2005) were used. The statistical techniques like mean, SD and correlation were calculated. The result shows that there is relationship between academic achievement and intelligence and there is no significance difference between the academic achievement and intelligence on the basis of gender and type of schools.