The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of the characteristics of secondary school administrators of Malita, Davao del Sur between instructional management leadership and the characteristics that best predicts instructional management leadership. Results showed that characteristics of secondary school administrators in terms of visionary, as a person, instructional manager, leader of an organization, manager and school-community facilitator had a descriptive rating of high level. On the level of instructional management leadership of secondary school administrators, the indicators had an overall descriptive rating of high level. On the test of significant difference between the dependent and independent variable, the independent variable significantly predicted the dependent variable. It was established in the study that there was significant relationship between the characteristics of secondary school administrators to the instructional management leadership. From the findings of the study, the indicators of characteristics of secondary school administrators were the potent factors that could predict the instructional management leadership.