Purposes of the Study 1. To study the structure of educational administrative system of secondary schools in the Educational Region I. 2. To study the educational administrative tasks of secondary schools in the Educational Region I, especially in the fields of academic, personnel, students affairs, business and school public relations administration. 3. To study the problems concerning the structure of educational administrative system of secondary schools in the Educational Region I, and those concerning the five educational administrative tasks. Methodology The “Field Study Approach” was used as the research tool, and such techniques as on the job observation, personal interviews, questionnaires, and school documents examination, were included. The population used in the research consisted of secondary schools under the General Education Department in the Educational Region I. Data were gathered from three groups of population samples, they were administrators, teachers, and parents. Data were analyzed through the use of percents and means. Findings 1. The structure of educational administrative system of most secondary schools in the Educational Region I are similar. That is, the principal hold the highest responsibility position in the school. There are assistant principals who are responsible for academic affairs, student affairs, and school business affairs, which is congruent with the policy of the General Education Department. Organization charts of most school are provided, but the job descriptions are absented in most schools. 2. According to the samples’ point of views, the secondary school principal carries and such functions as school business management, school personnel, academic affairs, and student affairs in a moderate degree. He also performs his function in school public relation rather low. However, there are different point of views between the administrators and the teachers, in term of ranking. That is, the administrators rank school business management as the highest performed function of the secondary school principal, while the teachers groups vote for the academic one. The samples also rank the school public relations as the lowest performed function of the principal. 3. Problems related to the educational administration structure and five tasks of the secondary schools in the Educational Region I are similar, they are the unclear communications, the misunderstanding in the school administrative structure of school personnel which leads to the overlap of their performance, the lack of classrooms, the lack of teachers, problems of students behavior, school business functions and the lack of school public relations.
