Foster youth are a unique group of students who experience distinct challenges to their education and well-being. Despite these challenges, foster youth are a highly resilient group with many protective factors underlying this resiliency. Protective factors, including supportive relationships and individual social-emotional strengths, are a strong predictor of mental health, academic, and subjective well-being outcomes. Thus, it is imperative to identify protective factors for foster youth, and to understand how these protective factors are related to their well-being and success. Of the research that has examined foster youths’ protective factors, most has assessed adult former foster youth in college. Much remains to be learned about strengths that may be fostered to support adolescents currently engaged with the foster care system. This study aims to fill these gaps in the current body of literature by examining foster youth students' social-emotional strengths and their relationship with well-being, quality-of-life, and academic outcomes. Anticipated results will provide an important foundation for additional research and school-based practice that aims to buffer the known risks to foster youths’ well-being and success. When students’ strengths are known, they may be bolstered and leveraged as part of multi-tiered systems of support that aim to promote wellness in addition to preventing and intervening on their challenges.