The Rwandan government and its international partners are investing in and implementing several initiatives to improve school leadership in the country. This brief aims to inform these efforts by providing a background on the state of school leadership in Rwanda, using self-reported data from a 2017 study of school leaders across the country. The data for this note were collected by Laterite in the context of a study commissioned by the African Institute of Mathematics and Science and the Mastercard Foundation, focusing on ICT education in secondary schools in Rwanda. The study was a survey of 1,391 STEM and ICT subject leaders, and 1,499 school leaders (head teachers or in case of their absence, the deputy head teacher, dean of studies or dean of teachers) from all secondary schools across Rwanda, collected in 2017.