Objective To understand the current situation of academic burnout among primary and middle school students and to explore its associated factors,so as to provide a scientific guidance and preventing and amelioration academic burnout among prima-ry and middle school students.Methods Between September and October 2023,a total of 10 474 primary and middle school students residing in Wuxi City participated in a questionnaire survey and physical examination conducted through stratified cluster random sampling.Latent profile analysis was used to classify academic burnout among primary and middle school students.Further-more,differences in the types of academic burnout among children and adolescents with varying characteristics were examined using the Chi-square test.Additionally,multinomial Logistic regression analysis was utilized to identify the associated factors for academic burnout.Results The academic burnout of primary and middle school students was divided into 4 categories:no/light academic burnout group(43.6%),physical and mental exhaustion group(32.9%),low achievement group(15.0%),high physical and mental exhaustion/high academic burnout group(8.5%).Middle and high school students,boys,not living with parents,smoking,daily screen time ≥2 hours,suffering from campus bullying,sometimes/often subjected to cyber attacks,abused by parents were more likely to have high physical and mental exhaustion/high academic alienation among primary and middle school students(OR=1.70,1.42,1.56,1.56,2.31,1.48,2.94,3.03,5.94,2.08,P<0.01).Conclusions The phenomenon of academic burnout among primary and middle school students is prominent.And targeted intervention measures shoould be actively taken to prevent and re-duce the occurrence of academic burnout among primary and middle school students.