The issue of school leadership has been accompanying the on-going school reform discourse, focusing on the autonomy of school leaders and the involvement of other stakeholders in the decision-making process. At the same time, an effort is being made to abandon the model of leading school independently, meaning that the headteacher is the sole bearer of power in school. Instead, the model of distributed leadership is advocated implying that the power is shared with all stakeholders in the decision-making process, with the aim of school improvement. The question arises as to how delegation fits into this process, which is culturally conditioned and shows the willingness of school employees to get involved in the decision-making process. Therefore, the aim was to analyses theoretical models of school leadership in order to contribute to the understanding of the position of delegation at the borderline between individual and distributed school leadership. This paper places delegation on the border between independent and distributed school leadership. Although delegation contains elements of distributed leadership (with numerous stakeholders involved in leading), this model of leadership still emphasizes the headteacher’s independent actions based on the authority derived from his formal position in the school hierarchy. As such, it resists modern tendencies and continues to exist in contemporary schools, due to the reluctance of other stakeholders to take on further responsibilities and get more actively involved in the process of creating a more democratic school culture.