The paper covers some conceptual ideas, experience and certain results of forming civil awareness in high-school students of senior grades during the education process. Novelty of the presented paper lies in a comprehensive approach to the issue of the civil awareness formation in high-school senior graders. In this respect the article focuses on the idea of integrating the notion of civil values into the educational process. Such values are called upon to bridge the gap between education and upbringing. The article brings forward the essence and structure of civil values awareness in senior-graders. The paper demonstrates the formation model of the afore-mentioned civil values awareness in students of senior grades. The authors have defined the set of pedagogical conditions required to effectively form civil values awareness in senior-graders, and have developed the evaluation criteria of the extent to which the civil values awareness is developed. Based on the criteria a diagnostic method has been created to evaluate the level of the formed civil values awareness. In the course of research conventional theoretical methods as well empirical methods were used, the preferred one of which was a pedagogical experiment. The authors pointed out the educational process itself is the driving force behind the effective formation of the civil values awareness in the senior-graders, and the process is based on the system of universal human values, national values, and democratic values, which in their turn make the civil values awareness category meaningful. Moreover, the study proved the idea that civil values awareness among the senior-graders is formed in an integrated way both in educational and upbringing activities as well as in extracurricular activity.