The study is carried out on 1219 primary school going Bengali children (609 are girls and 610 are boys) of North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal to investigate the physical growth as well as nutritional status. The study reveals that mean height, weight and body mass index (BMI) of boys are higher than girls up to 9 years of age respectively. After that, girls became taller and heavier than boys. Comparison of the current study findings with NCHS reference data reveals that boys and girls of present study have lower mean values of height, weight and BMI. The overall prevalence of overweight is 27.9 percent (30% for boys; 25.8% for girls), underweight is 24 percent (21.3% for boys; 26.6% for girls), thinness is 22.6 percent (21.6% for boys; 23.5% for girls), and about 14.8 percent children are stunted (13.8% for boys; 15.9% for girls). The highest prevalence (25.6%) of underweight is found among 9-year-old children and the lowest (21.9%) is found in the age group of 10 year. Stunting is the highest in the age group of 10 years (24.1%) and the lowest prevalence of stunting is 4.8 percent in the age group of 6 years of children. The highest prevalence of thinness (26.7%) is found in the age 6 years and the lowest prevalence (17.8%) is found in the age 10 years. Regarding overweight, the highest prevalence of overweight is found among 10-year-old children (33%) and the lowest (20.3%) is found in the age 6-year-old children. Region or population specific cut-off points should be developed. It may better reflect the actual scenario of any ethnic groups under the study.