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Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools.

US jobs
328,330
Median wage
$105,870 a year
Job family
Management and business operations

Can agents do the work of education administrators, kindergarten through secondary?

We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:

  • Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
  • Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.

Benchmarks for the job family

These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

  • Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
  • Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.
  • Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.
  • Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
  • Enforce discipline and attendance rules.
  • Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.
  • Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives.
  • Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.
  • Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
  • Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff.
  • Create school improvement plans, using student performance data.
  • Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases.
Other job titles for this occupation (28)

Athletic Director · Curriculum and Instruction Superintendent · Curriculum Director · Elementary Principal · K-12 Principal (Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade Principal) · MS Principal (Middle School Principal) · School Administrator (School Admin) · School Superintendent · SPED Director (Special Education Director) · Superintendent · Assessment Coordinator · Athletic Coordinator · Educational Program Director · Elementary School Principal · Headmaster · Junior HS Principal (Junior High School Principal) · K-12 School Principal (Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade School Principal) · K-8 School Principal (Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade School Principal) · PE Director (Physical Education Director) · Pupil Personnel Program Director · Pupil Personnel Services Director · School Coordinator · Secondary School Principal · Special Services Director · SPED Admin (Special Education Administrator) · SPED Coordinator (Special Education Coordinator) · SPED Superintendent (Special Education Superintendent) · Vice Principal