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Abstract Abstract This study examined educational leadership practices and school quality as foundations for developing a sustainable school leadership model in public secondary schools in the Malimono District, Division of Surigao del Norte, Philippines. A quantitative descriptive-correlational design using a cross-sectional survey was employed. The respondents comprised 85 teaching and non-teaching personnel selected from six public secondary schools. Data were collected using a researcher-made structured questionnaire and analyzed through frequency counts, percentages, weighted means, standard deviations, and the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The findings showed that educational leadership practices were highly practiced, with ethical and servant leadership receiving the highest assessment, while instructional leadership obtained the lowest rating but remained within the highly practiced category. School quality was highly evident, with instructional quality obtaining the highest rating, whereas governance and School-Based Management practices and organizational effectiveness were relatively lower. Sustainable school leadership was also highly practiced, particularly in continuous professional growth and community engagement and partnerships, while school resilience and innovation received the lowest rating. Educational leadership practices were not significantly related to sustainable school leadership, r = .017, p = .879, or to school quality, r = −.012, p = .916. In contrast, school quality had a very strong and significant relationship with sustainable school leadership, r = .929, p < .001. The findings indicate that sustainable school leadership is more strongly associated with institutionalized school-quality systems than with leadership practices alone. The developed model therefore positions instructional quality, school climate, teacher professionalism, participatory governance, and organizational effectiveness as the principal foundations of sustainable school leadership. Keywords: Educational Leadership Practices, School Quality, Sustainable School Leadership, School-Based Management, Public Secondary Schools