The fifth shift of the Malaysian Education Blueprint (MEB) 2013–2015, stated that the ministry will ensure high-performing school leaders are placed in every school. But the main challenge for the Malaysian school leader is to improve and achieve the key performance indicators of high-performing schools. This study supports the aspirations of MEB 2013–2015 by identifying the best practices of leadership to achieve outstanding student performance as well as to maintain the high-performance of schools. Therefore, this study examines the influence of entrepreneurial leadership, sustainability leadership and empowerment towards high-performing school leaders in primary schools of East Coast Malaysia. The instrument used is a questionnaire adopted from several questionnaires developed by previous researches on entrepreneurial leadership, sustainable leadership, empowerment and high-performing school leaders. A total of 486 questionnaires were distributed to the respondents of 15 high-performing primary schools in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang using the random sampling technique. With a 58 percent return rate, the data were analyzed using SPSS version 24 and SmartPLS version 3.28 for descriptive analysis, measurement model and structural model. The findings show that variables such as entrepreneurial leadership exerted a significant influence on high-performing school leaders and sustainability leadership also exerted a significant influence on empowerment. In addition, the results of this study support the contributions of the study that have been proposed. The findings of this study will contribute to future research, particularly to researchers aiming to examine this leadership style in depth on school performance in Malaysia.

School performance is the main agenda in school organization to achieving the vision and mission as well as the main objectives of the Ministry of Education. Issues on performance in the context of school organization are based on leadership management. The main issues highlighted are based on leadership in achieving the ultimate goal of the Ministry of Education (MOE). This study examines the leadership among the headmasters and principals in schools in improving the performance of schools in Malaysia. From the concept of leadership, the leadership that forms the leadership of entrepreneurship among teachers in every school leader plays an important role in the education system to deal with changes and challenges. Entrepreneurial leadership is a leader who is classified to achieve the same goal of using entrepreneurial behavior. Hence, this study focuses entirely on entrepreneurial leadership relationship with school performance in Malaysia. Supported by the Model Leader-Member Exchange theory, this study proposes a framework by outlining the factors that exist in entrepreneurial leadership and empowering. A total of 171 school administrators from public schools have participated in this study. Data for this study variables were collected through a self-administered survey. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is the main statistical technique used in this study. The findings show that some variables such as entrepreneurial leadership and empowerment are significant in relation to school performance. The findings will contribute to future research that researchers can research deeply on the performance of public or private schools in Malaysia.

School performance is the main agenda in school organizations in achieving the vision and mission as well as the main objectives of the Ministry of Education. Issues on performance in the context of school organizations are based on leadership management. The main issues highlighted are based on leadership in achieving the ultimate goal of the Ministry of Education (MOE). This study examines the leadership among the headmasters and principals in schools in improving the performance of schools in Malaysia. From the concept of leadership, the leadership that forms the leadership of entrepreneurship among teachers in every school leader plays an important role in the education system to deal with changes and challenges. Entrepreneurial leadership is a leader who is classified to achieve the same goal of using entrepreneurial behavior. Hence, this study focuses entirely on entrepreneurial leadership relationships with school performance in Malaysia. This study also tests the sustainability leadership as a second variable. Supported by the Model Leader-Member Exchange theory, this study proposes a framework by outlining the factors that exist in entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable leadership A total of 171 school organization from public schools have participated in this study. Data for this study variables were collected through a self-administered survey. Partial Least Square - Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) is the main statistical technique used in this study. The findings show that some variables such as entrepreneurial leadership and sustainability leadership are significant in relation to school performance. The findings will contribute to future research that researchers can research deeply on leadership 4.0 towards the performance of public or private schools in Malaysia.