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Aim of the study. Bullying in schools and society has become increasingly brutal, although previous studies show that bullying has actually decreased. Previous studies have also shown that bullied elementary school students experience health problems and poorer school performance as a result of bullying. Gender differences regarding bullying have also been considered in previous research. Girls have been shown to be more vulnerable to mental illness as a result of bullying. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of bullying on the bullied elementary school student’s health and to investigate what consequences bullying can cause on students’ school success. Any gender differences regarding the consequences onhealth and school success are also taken into account. Methods. This study was conducted as a literature review. To collect the data, I have analyzed 19 peer-reviewed articles. I have included both Finnish and international articles in my study to get a broader and more in-depth view of bullying. The articles are published between 2017–2022 and I analyzed them with thematic analysis. Results and conclusions. The results showed that bullying had a detrimental effect on the bullied elementary school student’s health and school success. Bullied elementary school students experienced internalazing symptoms, externalazing symptoms, psychosomatic symptoms and somatic symptoms. As a consequence of bullying, bullied elementary school students performed poorer in school and experienced poorer school engagement and school belonging. Because of this, teachers should be aware of the destructive effect of bullying on elementary school students’ health and school success. Furthermore, gender differences also emerged in my study. Girls were found to be more vulnerable to mental illness, that is, internalazing symptoms. Girls also performed better in the academic subjects at school except in mathematics. In addition to this, boys were at risk for poorer school engagement and school belonging compared to girls.