We use SAEB dataset with multileveled estimators to explain the student's performance for 4th grade of elementary school and 3rd grade of high school. We show that Brazilian elementary schools are not socially fair as they reproduce condition inequalities such as social-economic levels and parental (in) ability to finance and provide private schools. At high schools the family's greatest engaging in the school management and infrastructures of school may minimize this inequality. However, there is still a big gap between the performance of students from private and public schools. We also analyze regional effects on the educational system, states with lower political empowerment are not able to do education accountability and have lower performance. Inequality reproduction is a vicious cycle, states where income is badly distributed have worse and unequal educational systems.
Schools; Inequality; Microeconomics
