Objective To understand the status of pupils' nutrition knowledge attitude and practice in Changzhi and propose health education and promotion measures. Methods A total of 1 265 students were collected from 4~6 grades by random cluster sampling method to conduct a questionnaire survey for nutrition status. Results It showed that the correct answer rate of some nutrition knowledge questions was over 60%,while the correct answer rate of other ones was lower.It was 6.32% and 7.43% respectively.There were significant differences in eating frequency of fried,pickled,barbecue food between health education students and non health education students.The pupils obtained the nutrition knowledge from internet and television and they were willing to obtain the nutrition knowledge from teacher. Conclusions The rate of nutritional knowledge of primary school students in Changzhi was higher,but there were some deviations.Multiple health education should be used to help them develop good eating habits.