The overarching goal of the study was to evaluate management practices in public secondary schools in Uganda. It was incentivized by consistent underperformance of public secondary schools in comparison with their privately-owned counterparts.

The study revealed that there was planning in the public schools surveyed in all departments for the scholastic materials, food, accommodation, and other financial and non-financial services. The schools also generally planned for human resource for proper and timely staffing, controlled activities having to do with academics, and undertook budgeting activities. The schools were bureaucratically organized under clear hierarchies and chains of command.