School-Based Management Practices and Performance Among Elementary and Secondary Schools of Davao City Division

The purpose of the study was to estimate performance-difference of School Based Management performance among Elementary and Secondary Schools given practices from School Year 2017-2018 to 2019-2020. Descriptive-inferential using test of difference was used as the design of the study. Elementary and Secondary Schools’ stakeholders were the respondents of the study using secondary data which was generated from APAT tool. Results revealed that most Elementary and Secondary Schools are in the Maturing Level Stage of SBM Practices, while Schools displayed a good extent of implementation given performance indicators, nutritional status and English and Filipino Proficiency. Moreover, using Kruska-Wallis H-test, it found no empirical evidence to show significant difference on the performance of Elementary and Secondary schools given principles and indicators of SBM level of practices and likewise when measured with School’s Performance Indicators, Nutritional Status and English and Filipino Proficiency. The study concludes that Schools are in mature level, and displayed good performance for the last three school years 2017-2018 to 2019-2020. It is recommended that a review on existing policy on School Improvement Planning, Review, Monitoring and Assessment may be done, and a restructure and reeducation of SBM key persons such as the role of PSDS and School Heads given respective KRAs to clearly appropriate the roles and responsibilities for a correct deliverables, and likewise, Teachers need to be coached on the tasks given as School’s SBM Principle Chair and member of the committee through the leadership of the School Heads and PSDS’s technical assistance, and may lessen the intertwining of tasks to make focused on the main goal of SBM, that is to improve learning outcomes.