A person's self-esteem affects behavior in an individual's daily life. Self-esteem is a person's attitude based on the perception of how he values and assesses himself as a whole, which is a positive or negative attitude towards himself. However, a number of studies have revealed that students' self-esteem is still relatively low. Some evidence shows that there are still many students who have low self-esteem so that it has an impact on the behavior they show everyday. This type of research is quantitative research with a descriptive approach. The research respondents were 302 junior high school students in Batang Kapas District who were selected using proportional random sampling technique. Data collection used a student self-esteem scale. The results revealed that in general, students' self-esteem was in the moderate category. Further analysis presents data that one of the sub-variables, namely self efficacy is in the high category and self respect is in the medium category.