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The digital leadership of school administrators is an important mechanism to bring success and enhance the quality of learning within the organization and drive the administration in the next normal which will cause efficiency and effectiveness in the administration of educational institutions. The purposes of this study were (1) to examine the current and desirable situations of the leadership in digital of school administrators in the next normal era and (2) to assess needs of the leadership in digital of school administrators in the next normal era. The sample group consisted of 231 school administrators and teachers. The sample size was determined using the percentage criteria selected by Stratified Random Sampling. There were 2 five-rating scale questionnaires used in this study: (1) a questionnaire on current situations of the leadership in digital of schools administrators in the next normal era under Nakhon Phanom Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 with the index of Item Congruence (IC) between .60-1.00, the discrimination between .43-.86, and the reliability of .98; and (2) a questionnaire on desirable situations of the leadership in digital of schools administrators in the next normal era under Nakhon Phanom Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 with the index of Item Congruence (IC) between .60-1.00, the discrimination between .38-.84, and the reliability of .98. The statistics employed were percentage, mean, standard deviation and the Modified Priority Needs Index (PNI Modified). The results were found that (1) the current situations of the leadership in digital of school administrators in the Next Normal era in overall, were at a high level. The desirable situations of the leadership in digital of school administrators in the Next Normal era in overall, were at the highest level. (2) The results of the assessment of the needs of the leadership in digital of school administrators in the Next Normal era ranked from highest to lowest: digital vision; digital literacy; digital citizenship; digital infrastructure support; the use digital for communication; and digital culture, respectively.