The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of head teachers' background characteristics on the
entrepreneurship education of schools. The study analyzes how the background characteristics of head
teachers explain the implementation of entrepreneurship education in schools. The methods applied
were analysis of variance and linear regression analysis. The data consists of 135 Finnish general education
head teachers. The results show that while the head teachers and schools bring out some interesting
differences, only the school level and the head teacher's training in entrepreneurship education
can help to anticipate entrepreneurship education activities in the school.