The purpose of the study was to investigate Day secondary school leadership and students’ learning environment in Kwimba district. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying day secondary secondary school heads’ management practices, academic activities that day secondary school heads participate to improve the learning environment and assessing appropriate strategies that could influence learning environment for students in kwimba district. The research used mixed method research approach which comprises qualitative and quantitative. Ex post facto research design as nonexperimental applied that led to devide the respondents into two groups treatment and control. Control group has got standards and treatment group learn from the control group. The total number of respondents were 376. There was students, teachers, heads of school and district secondary education officer (DSEO). The data was collected by using questionnaires and anlysed by using SPSS (statistical package for social sciences software) version 16. The quantitative data was tested by using Chi-square and ANOVA. Qualitative data (interviews) was analyzed by narration. The findings showed that day secondary school heads maintained students and teachers discipline, follow up on students attendance, good relationship with the community, acdemic resources for positive learning environment for students. But, there were challenges such as provision of lunch and hostels for students at their schools. Therefore heads of schools in cooperation with the government, teachers’ houses, hostels, laboratories, libraries, classrooms, enough teachers, good relationship with the commuinty should be maintained so as to improve learning environment for students for quality education.