The Purpose of this study was to investigate the current practices of communityrnparticipation in the management of government secondary schools of Oromia RegionrnHoleta Administrative Town. For this study, descriptive survey method was employed;rnboth quantitative and qualitative data were used to gather information throughrnquestionnaire, interviews and document analysis. From the total sample size of the fourrnstudy groups, 45 teachers which are selected by simple random sampling (lotteryrnmethod), 21 KETB members, 21PTA members and 8 secondary school principalsrnselected purposively, all filled and returned the questionnaire which is 100% of the totalrnsamples. In addition, five education office experts and one secondary school supervisorrnwere selected purposively and interviewed. The other tool used in this study wasrndocument analysis. While analyzing the data collected using these mentioned tools;rnfrequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were employed. Some of the majorrnfindings based on the research questions were, concerning to the extent of communityrnparticipation in government secondary school management such as assisting theirrnchildren while they were doing their exercises found to be low, attending regularrnmeeting, With respect to the KETB and PTA participation in the key managementrnfunctions such as planning, resource mobilize, decision making, managing disciplinernand monitoring and evaluation was low level. Factors that affect the communityrnparticipation in the management of secondary schools, lack of commitment, lack ofrntraining, inappropriate time and place of meeting, negative attitudes of principals andrnteachers towards the role of community representatives members and lack of confidencernof community representatives members for they are not professional were found as thernmajor factors. To improve the situation, allowing the community to participate activelyrnin school management through community representatives members, providing adequaterntraining to members of PTA and KETB, principals and teachers how to carry out theirrnresponsibilities, creating conducive environment by encourage members of PTA andrnKETB, and arrange time and place of meeting on their interest, provide rewards for PTArnand KETB those who have better performance would be awarded during parents day atrnschool level. Town education experts should give professional support to teachers,rnprincipals, KETB and PTA in order to improve their limitations; they also had greatrnresponsibility to link the schools with other stakeholders is recommended to solve thernproblems.