A 1989 survey of Georgia's school superintendents was undertaken to discover the relative rank of their districts' administrative needs according to four organizational criteria: (1) school systems statewide; (2) system size and socioeconomic status; (3) system cost per pupil; and (4) system Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA). Findings were based on an 86 percent response from all of Georgia's superintendents to a 61-item mailed survey. Superintendents across the state, while ranking school-societal problems (such as drug abuse and teen pregnancy) as their highest need, divided their most critical needs into three categories: (1) people-centered problem areas, including staff morale, interpersonal relationships, and communications; (2) instructional leadership, including supervision, knowledge of curriculum and instruction, and program and teacher evaluation; and (3) managerial areas, including strategic planning, school-societal problems, and implementing change. Instructional needs declined and were displaced by managerial needs. Concerning needs by system size/socioeconomic status, all 6 groups identified at least 5 of the 10 highest needs selected by superintendents statewide. Regarding needs by system per pupil cost, each cost group demonstrated a unique pattern of administrative needs. The group of school systems within any one RESA presented a needs profile unlike that of any other. At the same time, each group included among its highest ranked needs some of the same critical needs as their peers statewide. Numerous tables and two appendices summarizing results are included. (MLH)