T The dental caries status of Indonesian inhabitant is still low. According to SKRT 1995, the mean of DMF - T between 6,44 to 7,80, while DMF - T standard of WHO is 3,00. One of an effort for preventive the dental caries is controlling about sweet foods, especially in the age of the children was in elementary school. The purpose of this research is to know the description of dental caries status and a habit to consume sweet foods in SDN Kalibata 11 Pagi in South Jakarta. This research to be done for 194 students of elementary school above, was descriptive observational, with survey's approched. The result of this research indicated that the mean of def - t Index all of the students are 3,31, seems decreasing from first class (5,1) to sixth class (0,6). The mean of DMF - T Index all of the students are 3,02, seems increasing from first class (1,8) to sixth class (4,2). The percentage of DMF - T index that more than four seems increasing from first class (5%) to sixth class (35%), except for fourth class (16%) that lower than third class (22%). The habit to consume very cariogenic sweet foods is decreasing from first class (35%) to sixth class (0%), except for fourth class (8%) that lower than fifth class (12%). These matter was supported with a good knowledge of dental caries on the fourth class (80%) and a good attitude of consuming sweet foods on the fourth class (64%) that was better than the other classes.