The study aimed to identify the level of community participation in activating the school development program in the public schools from the school principals’ perspective as well as investigate the effect of both sex and the school level. The study population and sample consisted of all the public school principals in Bani Kinana Directorate of Education amounting to (104) male and female principals. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire consisting of (30) items. The study showed that there is a high level that is statistically significant at the significance level (α≤ 0.05) for the community participation in activating the school development program in the public schools from the perspective of the school principals, where the overall mean was (3.80). there are also statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05) in the level of the community participation in activating the school development plan in the public schools from the perspective of the school principals according to the variable of sex for the benefit of the females, and the variable of the school level for the benefit of the primary school level
