Abstract
The research investigated the different levels of proficiency obtained by the Federal Institutes of Brazil in the ENEM, since it is understood that the public policies adopted nationally for the Federal Network of Education strengthen over time the offer of education. In order to meet the proposed objective, the studied population was composed of all the Federal Institutes of Brazil that disseminated data regarding the educational proficiency obtained by means of the ENEM knowledge areas, per school, extracted from the INEP electronic site in the period from 2011 to 2015 The methodological course was established by univariate statistical methods of measures of central tendency, dispersion, correlation and comparison of means between variables. Based on the findings, it was verified that the performance of the Federal Institutes of Brazil tends to be increasing and significant over the years, both when evaluated as a teaching network and when evaluated by region.
Production function theory; Educational performance; Public educational policies; ENEM