The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of socio-economic status of parents who work as oil palm laborers towardsthe children's formal education. The method used in this research was descriptive statistical methods with correlation study. The results of this study showed that t-count16.93 and t-table 2,021, so t-count was greater than t-table or 16.93>2,021. Hence, Hawas accepted and Ho was rejected. It means that there was a significant difference between Socio-economic Status of Parents Who Work as Oil Palm laborersagainstthe children's Formal Education. After testing the hypothesis, obtained that the large of coefficientdetermination (Adjusted R Square) was 88%, which means that the socio-economic status of parents who work as oil palm laborers was 88% (very high) to the children's formal education. While the rest 12% were influenced by other variables that theresearchers did not investigate further