The paper presents results of the investigation of organizational culture in rural schools. The poll was organized in fall 2004 among 1000 teachers working at primary schools in rural areas of south-eastern Poland and yielded 922 (92,2%) correct answers. The questionnaire contained 13 items of various focus concerning the strength of the organizational culturerelated issues, however only 4 of them are analysed in this paper. The statistical analysis of the answers reveals high importance of organizational liaisons for the teaching staff that is expressed by the pride of the school achievement, originality of educational aproaches (75%) and also by the knowledge of the history and fame of the institution (87%). Surprisingly, only 65 % of responses indicated children as the most important in the school. The paper contains also details on gendre, age and habitation of rural teachers.
