The article deals with the issue of self-concept of school success of children aged 10-15, who are placed in a children's home as part of the ordered institutional education. The research was performed with a standardized test Self-concept of school success of children- SPAS (Matějček, Vágnerová, 1992) on a sample of 109 selected respondents.
The research set was further internally differentiated in terms of gender. The article reflects key aspects related to this research.