The purpose of the study was to assess the provision and utilization of studentrnservices in government preparatory schools of Addis Ababa. It was designed tornaddress the areas of adequacy of the student services, perceptions of the studentsrnand student personnel staff on the level of services provided, utilization of thernservices by students, competence of the student service staff, involvement ofrnstudents in management and problems encountered in the provision and utilizationrnof the student services.rnThe study focused only on guidance and counseling, health and medical, library andrnco-curricular services. To conduct the study, descriptive survey approach wasrnemployed and both primary and secondary sources of data were used to gatherrninformation. Mainly used data gathering instruments were questionnaires andrninterview prepared on the basis of the basic questions of the study to be addressed.rnThe study was conducted in ten government preparatory schools taken from ten subrncities of Addis Ababa. The subjects of the study were 325 randomly selectedrnstudents, and 52 student personnel staff purposively selected based on their positionrnand job assignments. The data were analyzed by using percentages and chisquarerntest and interpreted accordingly.rnThe findings of the study generally revealed that none of the student services wasrnadequately provided. The study showed that from ten preparatory schools, onlyrnthree schools have health and medical services, but the service provided wasrninadequate. Additionally, the study indicates that co-curricular services such asrnsport and anti- AIDS were fairly adequate.rnLibrary services such as reading rooms and references were utilized frequently byrnthe students, while guidance and counseling, health and library services (internetrnand audio-visual), co-curricular services such as music and literature were neverrnutilized by students. Furthermore, as revealed in the study, the student service staffrnpersonnel was facing inadequacy and incompetence of service personnel in eachrnservice sector, while, the involvement of students in the student service managementrnin the schools was found to be medium.rnSimilarly, problems related to growth in students enrollment and weakness of schoolrnmanagement were found to be the major problems encountered in the managementrnof student services. Hence, it was recommended that necessary intervention shouldrnbe made by concerned bodies to provide quality services in the schools tornstandardized and give concern for parallel expansion of student services balancingrnwith the number of students entering to the institutions