This paper deals with the research in the Community Competency as an aspect of the multifacetted professional competency that secondary school administrators are to feature. This appears to be a current issue in the context of the present-day development of the Russian national Professional Standard of School Administrators. Рarticular attention is vested in the structure and the development of the Community Competency. The key research methods employed in this study were literature review observation and analysis of administrative practice, and content analysis of official documents. The challenges of the realization of the Community Competency development formats are scrutinized, and practice-proved solutions are offered. 1.