Environmental problems are among the most series problems in Ethiopia. Every year the country loose aboutrna million tones of top soil and millions will be left without adequate food, its forest resource which used torncover 40 percent of the total area now declined to less than 3 percent, its population doubles at least threerntimes in a century which aggravates the socio-economic and environmental problems. In addition, urbanrnareas of the country are characterized by chronic sanitation problems, rapid population growth (5.4 percentrnper annum), lakes and rivers highly polluted and important sites of dumping household and toilet wastes.rnFinding solution requires understanding of how individuals particularly the young generation think, whatrnthey care about, what motivates them, how they communicate and condition under which they behave mostrnreasonably and consciously. Thus the main aim of this study was to assess the level of environmentalrnawareness among students of Addis Ababa. The study also undertake to assess the level of effectiveness ofrnenvironmental education and the impact of family education and income, types of schools students arernlearning, gender and enrollment level on the student-environment relationship. Document analysis and fieldrnsurvey were employed to conduct the study. Accordingly Geography and Biology curricula of the first andrnsecond cycle secondary education were assessed. Questionnaires were developed and administered to gradern9, 10, 11 and 12 students on twenty senior secondary schools in Addis Ababa. A total of 350 students werernselected on the basis of stratified random sampling. The data gathered were analyzed using statisticalrnmethods such as percentages, frequency graphs, and Pearson product moment correlation used to comparernsignificance relationship between awareness, interest to work in groups, concern on environmental issuesrnand actual involvement to do things to benefit the environment among the variables such as family incomernand education, grade level, types of school and gender.rnResults of the study showed that family income level significantly determine the concern of students onrndifferent environmental issues. Age and, grade level on their further interest to know more about the samernissue but the overall influence of theses independent variables among the students is not much.rnEnvironmental educations in the schools were restricted to classroom dissemination of just environmentalrninformation. It lacks field and problem oriented teaching strategies. However, the felt awareness, concern,rnand interests of the students and attitudes of students in relation to the issue were generally high.rnOpportunities for the students to participate actively in environmental related activities in schools andrncommunities are found to be very weak. To improve these conditions appropriate education on thernenvironment supported by skills and problem solving teaching strategies need to be provided to participate inrnsolving real-life environmental problems of the country.