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Aims: This study is conducted to provide comparison between female students of selective and public high schools (PHS) in Urmia city in Iran, using creativity and critical thinking measures. Methods: Statistical randomized-sampling technique is used in selection of 90 students from one selective high school (SHS) and 260 students from three PHS. The Torrance creativity and California critical thinking inventories were used for data collection. Results: A causal-comparative strategy is used in the analysis, while one-way ANOVA test and T test between independent groups were used to test the hypothesis regarding the difference between students in SHS and PHS. Results showed that there is a significant difference between SHS and PHS groups (fluidity, expansion, initiative, and flexibility). Conclusion: It is concluded that while considering the critical thinking, no significant difference exists between the components of deductive and inductive analysis. But, differences between selected groups was observed when considering the analysis and inference components. According to the results obtained for creativity, a meaningful relationship between all of the elements in both of the selected groups with p