This study was made as an attempt to the social support to learning and development of higher secondary school students. Normative survey method was employed to collect the data through questionnaire by adopting simple random sampling technique. The questionnaire was constructed and validated by the researcher under the guidance of research supervisor. The sample size of this investigation comprises 96 higher secondary school students. Among them, 55 were Boys and 41 were Girl’s students studying in various higher secondary schools from Chennai district of Tamil Nadu. The objective of the present study is to find out the social support to learning and development of higher secondary school students with respect to Gender and Type of family and Parental monthly income. Mean, S.D, t-value and F-value were the statistical techniques employed. The major findings showed that there is significant difference in the social support of higher secondary school students to learning and development based on gender, parental monthly income, and type of family.