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This research aimed at identifying the level of self-esteem and learning styles among school students in hail. Additionally, it aimed to specify the nature of the relationship between self-esteem, learning styles and academic achievement, and to identify the impact of the interaction between self-esteem and learning styles on academic achievement among secondary school students in hail, using the descriptive method. To achieve the research goals, "self-esteem scale," prepared by Al-Derini and Salama (1983), which developed by Belkilani (2008), and "learning styles scale", prepared by Felder & Silverman which translated to the Arabic by Alqahtani (2009), were applied to a sample consisted of (408) students from hail first grade secondary students. The results indicated a high level of self-esteem among the research sample. They also pointed out that the learning style preferred by hail secondary students was the active - reflective learning style, followed directly by sequential - global learning style, the visual- verbal learning style, and at last came the sensory- intuitive style. The results indicated that the study sample prefers the visual learning style versus the verbal learning style. The active learning style versus reflective learning. And the sequential learning style versus the global learning style. They also indicated that there is a positive relationship between self-esteem, visual learning style versus the verbal learning, and academic achievement among a research sample, they also pointed a significant statistical differences in students' academic achievement attributed to visual learning style versus verbal learning style, and sequential learning style versus global learning style. The results revealed an effect of the interaction between self-esteem and active learning versus reflective learning, as well as between self-esteem and sequential learning style versus global learning on academic achievement. Finally, the results were discussed a light of theatrical literature and previous studies and some recommendations were suggested. (Published abstract)