The present study was designed to determine attitudes of elementary school teachers toward mentally handicapped children in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, School District Five. The study was done in an effort to provide better understanding of these attitudes and to aid in the development of more meaningful relationships between the regular classroom teacher and the mentally handicapped school-aged child. The hypothesis is that there is no significant relationship between elementary school teacher attitudes toward the mentally handicapped and certain background variables which are, years of experience, male and female, age, highest degree earned, number of semester hours earned in special education, racial groups, specific grades, type of school in which they teach, years of marriage, and number:of children.