The purposes f thi tudy wa to a ses and understand the magnitude and level ofrnattitude and practice t wards multicultural education by teachers and students in somernselected private high r education institutions in Addis Ababa. Moreover it wasrnconducted in order 0 understand the difference among teachers as well as amongrnstudents on the Ie cI of attitude and practice they have. This research has alsornattempted to ee th presence of gender difference among teachers and also amongrnstudents on their attitude and practice towards multicu ltural education. In this study arntotal of 298 teachers and students were taken as a sample. From this sample 58 ofrnthem were teachers and 240 were students. For a better understanding of the situationrna mixed re earch method was employed with an emphasis on tr iangulation design.rnQuestionnaire, FGD and observation were used as method of data collection. Thernmean va lue freq uency, percentiles and expected mean were used for analyzing thernquantitative data while the qualitative data were thematically organized, categorizedrnand examined to understand the emerging patterns of responses. Finally the results ofrnthis study sho ed that the majority of teachers and students were found as having arngood level of positive attitude and a higher level of practice which is advocated by therngoals and philosophies of multicultural education. However from both, teachers andrnstudents proportions that cannot be taken as insign ifi cant have been found to have arnnegative inclination and a lower practi;e programs of multicultural education