Many factors that contribute to this education wastage a probable factor of which we are hearing more and more these days is certain degree of apathy or indifference towards studies and irregularity of attendance at classes among students. The main objective of the present study is to study the influence of locality and gender on the Absenteeism of IX class students. Absenteeism checklist was developed by Motupalle Shenshavali (2011) was adopted from Ramesh Peddi (2017). A sample of 300 IX class students representing all categories of Secondary schools in Chittoor District by following the standardized procedures.‘t’ – test was employed for analysis of the data. There is significant influence of locality and gender at 0.01 level of significance on the Absenteeism of IX class students.