This study served to examine the classifications of preferred principal leadership characteristics in elementary schools under the unified recognition that principals were exerting various leadership characteristics according to the value system. By developing and applying an assessment tool that measures the classifications of principal leadership characteristics, I examined how these classifications appeared in elementary schools. Results were distributed in the following order: Category Ⅱ (142, 38.6%), Category Ⅰ (86, 23.4%), Category Ⅴ (61, 16.6%), Category Ⅳ (41, 11.1%), and Category Ⅲ (38, 10.3%). Moreover, teacher gender and position had a statistically significant correlation with the recognition of the classifications. However, there was no statistically significant correlation between teachers age, teaching career, school size, and their recognition. By using the classification assessment tool to examine and analyze patterns in schools, this study confirmed the existence of classifications of principal leadership characters in the academic context.