The objectives of this study are to find out rural students’ beliefs about English learning and to find out their strategies used in learning English. The study was conducted in three different senior high schools in Teunom district of Aceh Jaya regency. The study used the quantitative method with the survey design, and the questionnaire was used as the instrument to get the data needed. The population of this survey study was all classes in the three schools. Three classes of each school were randomly chosen from tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade. Therefore, 136 students of nine classes became the sample of this study to respond to the two given questionnaires. The collected data was analyzed through a quantitative procedure by using a statistical formula to find the percentage of each statement. The results showed that the students endorsed a variety of beliefs about English learning and they also employed a variety of strategies in learning English. The most common beliefs held by students was motivation and expectation followed by beliefs about the nature of language learning, beliefs about learning and communication strategies, beliefs about foreign language aptitude, and beliefs about the difficulty of language learning beliefs. In addition to the strategy, the most common strategy employed was metacognitive followed by social, affective, memory, cognitive, and compensation.