Abstract This study examined the relationship between school administrative structure and sustainable education management in public senior secondary schools in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers State. The study utilised a correlational research survey design with a population of 1,933 comprising 48 principals and 1,885 teachers in the 48 public senior secondary schools in Port Harcourt Metropolis. The sample size of this study was 368 respondents which consisted of 48 principals and 320 teachers selected from the population using the Krejcie and Morgan Table. The instrument for data collection were two sets of questionnaires titled “School Administrative Structure Questionnaire and Sustainable Education Management Questionnaire. The instruments were validated by three experts, one in the field of Educational Management, and two in Measurement and Evaluation both in Rivers State University. The internal consistency of the instrument yielded reliability coefficients of 0.80, 0.85, 0.77, 0.77, 0.84 and 0.81, which showed that the instruments were reliable. The research questions were answered and the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient Statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The result of the analysed data revealed that there is a high positive relationship between School administrative structure and sustainable education management. Based on the findings, it recommended among others that: School administrators of public senior secondary schools in Port Harcourt Metropolis should strike a balance between decentralization, matrix structure and participative structure to maximise benefits.
Uwem et al. (Sat,) studied this question.