This paper aims to enlarge the knowledge about the development and maintenance of the students habitus that reinforce the good performance of elementary school students. We analysed some parents and students answers as well as some notes that we got during a survey developed in ten of the best public and private schools in Rio de Janeiro. The schools included in this research sample were choosen based on the students results in Prova Brasil and ENEM. This paper shows some results of a crossed analysis between the routines and family efforts and institutional practices that pointed to the reinforcement of the student habitus that supports their good performances in those schools. We find among popular families traces of a relatively stronger parent's engagement to accompany and support their children studies than among the families with higher social and cultural level. This result drove us to pursuit students experience and characteristics of family support that reinforce the student habitus as an answer of school requests. We also find different management styles articulated with family styles to deal with children scholarity indicating the presence of combined strategies to produce the student habitus, offering an instigate overview about family and school relationship in the production of schools quality.
family-school relationship; student habitus; schools quality
