The article presents the results of a study of the COVID-19 fear scale of high school students in the system of studying anxiety in a pandemic. A new understanding of the phenomenon of anxiety in the emergency conditions of a pandemic is being clarified. The results of foreign studies (University of Sheffield; H. Yao, J.H. Chen, Y.F. Xu; J. Qiu, B. Shen, M. Zhao et al) at the beginning of the pandemic experimentally determined an increase in the level of anxiety and stress in the population due to the spread of COVID-19, which allowed them to identify the age groups of people most susceptible to anxiety-depressive reactions, and develop the main directions of psychological assistance, taking into account the specifics of their response. The scientific and methodological value is represented by the works of foreign scientists (E. Commodari, V.L. La Rosa; C.G. Sibley, L.M. Greaves, N. Satherley et al.) showed a direct relationship between the anxiety state of the personality of high school students caused by the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020.