Emotional intelligence is a person's ability to make, distribute, and control the alignment of his emotional life with the intelligence. The purpose of the study was to know the difference between high school students emotional intelligence grade III that follows the regular school of SMAN 3 Banda Aceh and boarding school of SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan Banda Aceh. The study design was a cross sectional analytic, samples who meet the inclusion criteria were divided into two groups, namely the environment of school education and emotional intelligence. The number of samples is 60 grade III school SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan Banda Aceh and school of SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. Sample were taken by stratified randomize. The School environment saw based on regular school and boarding school. The emotional intelligence saw based on questionnaire results now charging on emotional intelligence. Data analysis used T-test with 2 samples to compare the emotional intelligence of groups of the school. The result shows that 60 respondents from each schools educational environment that has filled the emotional intelligence scale have the result of different score, mean of emotional intelligence between the two groups is 129,78 the mean score of the regular school of SMAN 3 Banda Aceh, and 140,52 the mean score of the boarding school SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan Banda Aceh. Independent t-test results of the test are obtained significant P-value=0.00 with a confidence level of 95% (0.05) concluded that emotional intelligence the students of boarding School class III SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan Banda Aceh is higher than the students of regular School class III SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. Keywords: Intellegence, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), School.