On the basis of a dialogue with the literature of the sociology of education on the inter-generational transmission of cultural patrimony among the middle classes, particularly with respect to educational investment, a typology of schools and primary school trajectories was constructed. Based on a hypothesis for the classification of private schools in Rio de Janeiro, the different school trajectories found are described and some results of the analysis of the data referring to the group studied are discussed. The conclusion highlights the heuristic potential of the characterisation designed in the sense of deepening the understanding of the set of primary school establishments and enriching the possibilities of analysis by going beyond the distinction between the public and private character of the schools.
schools; trajectories; strategies
