Creativity being one universal psychological trait is expected in varying degrees among different individuals. But it is the environment which makes a lot of difference in the nurturing of the creative potential of the children. The same type creative environment is not seen everywhere. As such the present study is on the creative environment of the tribal and non-tribal secondary school students of Himachal Pradesh. The study was conducted with the objectives like to compare the creative environment of tribal secondary school boys and girls, to compare the creative environment of non-tribal secondary school boys and girls, and to compare the different sets of creative environment of tribal and non tribal secondary school students. It was conducted on a sample of 100 tribal (Boys=50 & Girls=50) and 100 non tribal (Boys=50 & Girls=50) secondary school students of two districts of Himachal Pradesh. The findings of the study are Significant difference exist in the creative environment of tribal and non-tribal secondary school students, no significant difference exist in the creative environment of tribal secondary school boys and girls students, significant difference exist in the creative environment of non-tribal secondary school boys and girls students, and the tribal and non-tribal secondary school students differs significantly on different sets of creative environment like home, school, society, work/study and the total.