The study was a comparative analysis of the management of public and private secondary schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study had five specific objectives, five research questions and five null hypotheses. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study is one thousand five hundred and twenty eight (1528) which consists of principals from all public and private secondary schools in Kaduna State. Out of this number, three hundred and seven (307) were purposively sampled in the State from each of the two Local Government Areas. The researcher developed a checklist for data collection. The researcher collected a letter of introduction from the department of vocational and technical education, that enabled the researcher to collect official data needed for the study from Ministry of Education Kaduna State and other schools in the state. The data collected were analyzed using frequencies and percentages, while, the hypotheses were tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The study results among others revealed that, public secondary schools were provided with more instructional materials than private secondary schools in Kaduna State. The study concluded that, Public secondary schools are better than private schools in terms of provision of instructional materials. The study recommends that proprietors of private secondary schools in Kaduna State should build on standard through the provision of adequate instructutional resources like their counterparts in public secondary schools.