We sought to determine the hearing status of first-grade students of the educational institution Normal Superior de Popayan, at the discretion of teachers and implementation of hearing tests, 2010. We performed a quantitative study, case series and cross-section; universe population consisted of 109 children aged between 5 and 6 years and 4 teachers linked to the institution, the sample consisted of 46 school determined by the package statistical STATS. We found that eight children had unilateral conductive hearing loss on audiometry, acoustic impedance tests, reported the 5 children with abnormal tympanometric curves and 3 children with pathological stapedial reflexes, 12 students showed altered hearing status at the discretion of the teachers, none of whom showed abnormal audiological tests. We concluded that the most frequent hearing losses conductive type and can be easily noticeable by teachers.