Over the years, education policy reforms have been exerting increased pressure on the senior secondary schools to improve teaching and learning process thereby expanding the duties and responsibilities of its administrators. Educational administrators now hold leadership positions with significant responsibility of coordinating and interacting with faculty, parents, students, community members, business leaders, and state and local policymakers which is stressful and demanding. Academic administration can be defined as the set up and the functions of the educational machinery for quality improvement in the schools. It involves the continuous assessment, guidance and support given to the teachers for their professional development and improvement in the teaching learning process. Keeping it in mind, a comparative study of the structure and the function of the academic administration in four private and four government schools in Delhi were carried out to get an insight into the efforts made by both the systems for the quality improvement for the achievement of higher academic outcome. The data was collected by administering the various tools on the principals, teachers, and parents of the children studying in the chosen schools. The findings of the research indicated that the academic administration in the private schools is better as compared to the government ones under several heads discussed the paper in detail.