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The study was conducted to assess some quality assurance indices in the management of public and private primary schools in Rivers State. To guide the study, two specific purposes, research questions and null/hypotheses respectively were formulated. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised consisted of all the 87,501 head teachers, teachers and parents of primary six pupils. A sample size of 20 respondents was selected using stratified random sampling techniques. The researcher developed instrument entitled: ‘Quality Assurance Indices of Public and Private Schools’ Questionnaire (QAIPPSQ) to generate data for the study. The instrument was validated by a specialist in early childhood education and an expert in test and measurement. Cronbach alpha technique was used to obtain a reliability coefficient ranging from 0.70 to 0.89. Mean and standard deviation and 2-Way ANOVA were used for result analysis to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study reveal a significant difference in educational qualifications of private primary schools over public primary schools and joint decision-making pattern in public schools over the private primary schools. It was recommended that head teachers and teachers educational qualification need to be enhanced by training and retraining of teachers and sponsoring them for higher educational qualifications. The increase in knowledge will help to contribute to quality management in schools.