The poor condition of living of Nigerian citizens coupled with the poverty level as well as the high unemployment level of the youths reveals that the recent economic reforms in Nigeria have not had serious impact on the citizens. The process skills of science are invaluable tools for the economic reform and development of any country. The acquisition of these skills has therefore been greatly emphasized in recent times. This study is focused at finding out the level of acquisition of science process skills by our Junior secondary school students and also determine the influence of school location on the acquisition of the skills. Two research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The study was carried out using seven science process skills. The design of the study was an ex-post factor. A total sample of sixty (60) Js II basic science students drawn from both urban and rural secondary schools in Nsukka education zone of Enugu States was used. A Science Process Skill Rating Scale (SPSRS) designed by the researcher was the instrument used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for answering the research questions while the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used for testing the hypothesis. The findings of the study revealed that the level of acquisition of the integrated process skills are generally low and that students located in urban schools were significantly superior (p< 0.05) to their rural counterparts in their level of acquisition of science process skills.

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