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Background: Education is one measure of human development indicators. In Indonesia, the educational goals stated in the Law are to educate the life of the nation and develop Indonesian people as a whole. Education in children is an important thing that is part of the process of his potential developing. Many things affect the process of childrens education, including the parent-s mental disorder. Purpose: the aim of this study was to examine the effects of parental depression on educational outcomes in children aged 6-12 years. Methods: Analysis using IFLS waves 4 and 5, with longitudinal design. IFLS-4 was conducted in 2007 and IFLS-5 in 2014. Children were 6-12 years old from IFLS-5, with outcome variable was education dropouts in the form of dropping out, failed and repeat class, and temporarily dropout school (minimum 1 month). The main factor parental depression were measured from CES-D instrument IFLS-4 and IFLS-5. The inclusion criteria were children who lived at the same home with parents. Exclusion criteria are children who drop out due to family economic reasons, no-school, school-far, and no-teacher. The covariates were childrens- sex, childre-s chronic disease, parents work status, parent-s education and parent-s age, and type of residence. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify the main factor effect to outcomes with covariate control. Results: Our study show that children by 8.7% experienced dropout-school. After being adjusted for covariates, maternal depression have an impact on 6-12 years dropout- school, especially depression experienced by mothers both in 2007 and 2014 (OR 1.97; 95% CI 1.04-3.74,P=0.037). Whereas father depression is not proven to have an impact on child dropouts 6-12 years. Conclusion: Our findings indicate maternal depression has a significant influence on the incidence of child dropouts. While paternal depression did not give effect to the drop-out of the child. This finding certainly provides an impetus to provide literacy about mental health and parenting, so parents and the environment can provide support for the optimal achievement of childrens education.