Academic excellence is the desire to achieve excellence in educational work.Academic excellence has been recognizedfor achieving high-level performance &achievement. Every teacher accepts that fostering Curiosity and imagination in children is the main objective to boost their academic excellence. Researchers agree thatCuriosity and imagination accept lays the necessary ground to make them successful in school performance. The present study used a descriptive survey, which includes survey testing observational analysis and case study, consistingof IX standard students in private aided, private unaided, and government secondary schools of Bangalore city for the academic year 2018-19. A stratified random sample of 240students was selected from Bangalore city from four private unaided schools,four private aided schools, and two government schools representing sex and type of school management. The number of boy’s students was 125, and girl students were 115.