Introduction:the article deals with the main components of socialization and individualization of primary school children. Modern socio-cultural society sets the vector of the updated educational policy. It is not enough for a person to increase only intellectual development, it is necessary to pay attention to the education of a thinking, interacting, responsible person who can make decisions, self-develop and independently control the achievement of goals. Therefore, the normative documents, supporting the importance of socialization and individualization of students, focus on the active inclusion of the child in the socio-cultural reality due to the specific organization of the educational space of the school. The latter, in turn, is focused, on the one hand, on the education of the qualities of consciousness, thoughtfulness, responsibility, and on the other, on the development of creativity of students, the individuality of each and the ability to interact with the surrounding world.Materials and methods: critical selection of information (theoretical and comparative analysis of domestic and foreign literature) and integration of approaches and methods of different orientation (theoretical and empirical). The methodological basis of the study was: systemic, socio-cultural, dialectical, personalized approaches.Results:the author defines the main components of socialization and individualization of schoolchildren, namely motivational-target, procedural and evaluative-reflexive (diagnostic); substantiates a set of conditions that contribute to the effective socialization and individualization of children, which is based on the organization of free interaction of the child with the surrounding world. The latter is considered as its progressive socialization and individualization in the process of cognition and transformation, social and cultural patterns in different types of children's activities.The article also presents the criteria for determining the success of socialization and individualization of students: motivational, value-normative, cognitive, communicative, practice-creative.Discussion and conclusions:the proposed components of socialization and individualization of students and the described conditions of their successful implementation can be used by teachers of the school as key reference points in the implementation of educational activities.