This paper reports an evaluative study of relationships between students, administrators, the surrounding community, family, teachers of a public school in a danger zone of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. Over the years, this school has shown positive results in their evaluations, which goes against some paradigms of school failure. In this study students, teachers and educational specialists were interviewed, which allowed to obtain necessary information for evaluating the school context in all its dimensions for the development of successful teaching practices. The results of the evaluation reflect that the good performance of this school is associated, in general, to factors such as family and community participation in school life, teacher's high expectation with respect to students' learning, active participation of the management team, attention given to classroom activities; home work; good conditions of the school building; pedagogical proposal set with contextualized and meaningful practice, and use of appropriate pedagogical support materials.
Assessment; Basic education; Pedagogical practices; Factors of school success
