The article presents classical systems of academic monitoring displaying didactic, educational, social and psychological, administrative, and material
 aspects of academic process on the basis of the analysis of the set of approaches to definition of the concepts of �pedagogical monitoring� and �quality
 of education�. The actualmodification of monitoring system for rural school is analysedwith regard tomultiple aspects of understanding the category of
 �quality of education�. The conclusion is drawn on existing problems in organization of pedagogical monitoring associated with various approaches to
 understanding the essence of educational quality, classical inclination of pedagogy to traditional knowledge criteria of monitoring, need of developing
 new indicators with regard to humanistic orientation of contemporary school and weak measuring and monitoring framework. Considering these factors
 and specifics of modern rural school authors present a model of social and pedagogical monitoring for rural educational organizations and provide
 an example of education monitoring in one of the rural schools of the Kirov region, displaying elements of a competence and activitybased paradigm.