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The present study is aimed at identifying the degree of administrative empowerment and its relationship with the implementation of school management standards from the point of view of the principals of basic education schools in Musandam Governorate and showing the effect of the gender variable, the variable of academic qualification, the variable years of experience on the degree of appreciation. There is a statistically significant relationship between variables: administrative empowerment and the application of school management standards. The sample of the study consisted of (36) principals and assistants’ principals of schools. The study tool was applied and a questionnaire prepared by the researcher was distributed on the two main areas of study: administrative empowerment and school management standards. The validity of the tool was measured through the (true honesty) of the arbitrators and the correlation coefficients and paragraphs with the total score (content validity). The results of the study indicate that there is no significant difference in the estimation of the study sample to the degree of administrative empowerment, gender, and years of experience, while there are statistically significant differences in the sample of the study sample for the degree of administrative empowerment due to the academic qualification in favor of the bachelor degree. (Published abstract)