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The study assessed teachers’ compliance to Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria code of conduct in secondary schools in Anambra State. Three research questions guided the study and three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 6,654 respondents made up of 258 principals and 6,396 teachers in all the public secondary schools in Anambra State. Multi-stage sampling procedure was utilized to draw a sample size of 691 respondents made up of 51 principals and 640 teachers. A researcher-developed questionnaire titled ‘‘Teachers Compliance to TRCN Professional Code of Conduct Questionnaire (TCTPCCQ)’’ was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts; who are lecturers, two in the Department of Educational Management and Policy and a specialist in Measurement and Evaluation in Department of Educational Foundations, all in the Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Cronbach alpha was used for test of internal consistency of TCTPCCQ and the reliability indices obtained for the four clusters were 0.74, 0.81 and 0.71, respectively, and the overall coefficient value of 0.75 which are considered the instrument to be reliable for the study. The researcher together with five research assistants collected data for the study using direct administration method and 95% return rate was recorded. Mean and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed among others that teachers comply to TRCN code of conduct with respect to their duties to students in secondary schools in Anambra State. It was also found out that teachers comply to TRCN code of conduct with respect to their duties to colleagues in secondary schools in Anambra State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Ministry of Education should mandate secondary school principals to constitute Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria code of conduct implementation committee to regularly monitor and improve teachers’ compliance with the code of conduct with respect to their duties to colleagues