Relative importance of social deprivation, intelligence, punctuality, and ethnicity in predicting educational achievement was examined. 150 eigth grade male students from north India, equally divided into two ethnic groups (75 Scheduled caste and 75 non-Scheduled caste) participated in the study. Results obtained through correlations and multiple regression analyses showed that social deprivation was the most important, and ethnicity was the least important predictor of educational achievement.