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This study investigates the relationship between parenting styles and self concept with academic achievement of moslem adolescent. A total of 160 adolescents from one Islamic School in Southern Jakarta was selected as respondents in this study. Three types of parenting styles were highlighted namely authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. The two types of self concepts are positive self concept and negative self concept. Academic achievement has been designed by the researcher based on The Quran and Hadith subject. Descriptive analysis shows that most of the respondents- parents practised authoritative parenting style and also most of the respondents have negative self concept. Analyses of variance were computed on the scores obtained from the self-report instrument administered and correlations between these scores and achievement scores were calculated. The correlation analysis shows that there is significant relationship between the parenting styles with the academic achievement. It is also discovered that there is a significant relationship between self concept and the academic achievement.