The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership style and schoolrnculture of private secondary schools of Bole sub-city. The study employed descriptive and cornrelational research design that includes 215 teachers respondents' and 20 parents intervieweesrnthose are the parent teacher association members. Standardized Leadership Questionnaire ofrnNorthouse based on kurt Lewin 1939 leadership model and School Culture Survey of StevernGruenert, (1998) with some modification were used to collect data. Data were analyzed usingrndescriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviations and inferential statistics such asrnPearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Besides, the findings unveiled thatrnAutocratic leadership style, had positive and moderate significant co-relationship withrncollaborative leadership, collegial support and professional development, butrnit has weak relationship with other dimensions. On top of this Democratic leadership style hadrnmoderate, but significant correlation with learning partnership, collaborative leadership,rnprofessional development, collegial support, but with teacher collaboration, and unity of purposernschool culture dimensions was found strong a significant correlation as the r value signified.rnHowever, Laissez-faire leadership style relationship had a weak relationship withlearningrnpartnership whereas it had a moderate relationship with professional development, unity ofrnpurpose, collegial support dimensions of school culture furthermore, it had strong relationshiprnwith collaborative leadership, and teacher collaboration. The regression analysis furtherrndisplayed that overall leadership style: democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire leaderships wererngood predictors of school culture and has significant correlation. Although, the overallrnleadership styles and the overall school culture correlation was positive as the r value indicates.rnKey words: leadership style, leadership behaviors, school culture