<![CDATA[Abstract: Quality education can be achieved if school implements appropriate strategic management. Based on the assumption and the weakness of school management nowadays, the writer is interested in conducting a study with the objective to describe and analyze the profile, implementation, and evaluation of strategic management in the effort to improve education quality in SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan State Senior High School. Subjects of the study were principal, vice principal, treasurer, school administrative office personnel, school committee, and teachers. Data were collected through observation, interview, and documentation study. The results of the study showed that the profile of the school described the visions, missions, goals, targets and school resources. The strategies were implemented through internal and external school activities described through school structural organization, teamwork, and the distribution of job, day and time of study, cost asset, curriculum, school promotion, new student enrollment, school culture, ethic code, school policy, geographical environment, demography, environment culture and community appreciation, government regulation, development of science and technology, involvement of school committee, partner institution and alumni, and strategy implementation in achieving national education standard. The evaluation was conducted continuously by involving top management and all personnel either in short, medium, or long term by using school and teacher self-evaluation instruments, and benchmarking in order to improve school performance and education quality.Keywords: strategic management and quality of education.Abstrak: Pendidikan bermutu dapat terlaksana bila sekolah mengimplementasikan manajemen strategi yang tepat. Beranjak dari asumsi tersebut dan permasalahan lemahnya manajemen sekolah dewasa ini, penulis tertarik melakukan penelitian dengan tujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis profil, implementasi dan evaluasi manajemen strategik dalam upaya meningkatkan mutu pendidikan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang dilakukan pada SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan dimana yang menjadi subyek penelitian adalah kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah, bendahara, tenaga tata usaha, komite sekolah dan guru. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui observasi, wawancara dan studi dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa profil SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan mendeskripsikan visi, misi, tujuan, sasaran dan profil sumber daya sekolah. Implementasi strategi pada SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan dilakukan melalui aktivitas lingkungan internal dan eksternal sekolah yang dideskripsikan melalui struktur organisasi sekolah, teamwork dan pembagian tugas sekolah, hari dan waktu belajar, aset pembiayaan, kurikulum, promosi sekolah, penerimaan siswa baru, budaya sekolah, kode etik, kebijakan sekolah, keberadaan lingkungan geografis, demografis, lingkungan budaya dan apresiasi masyarakat, regulasi pemerintah, perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, keterlibatan komite sekolah, lembaga mitra, alumni dan implementasi strategik dalam upaya memenuhi standar pendidikan nasional. Pelaksanaan evaluasi pada SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan dilakukan secara terus menerus melibatkan manajemen puncak dan seluruh personil sekolah baik jangka pendek, menengah dan panjang melalui instrumen evaluasi diri sekolah, guru dan Benchmarking untuk meningkatkan kinerja sekolah dan mutu pendidikan.Kata kunci: manajemen strategik dan mutu pendidikan]]>
