Education in rural areas of the state of Sao Paulo/Brazil: analyzing the effects of rurality levels on school performance

This paper aims to analyze the influence of the school location and origin of students (rural and urban) in the dropout rate, the rate of pass/fail performance obtained in IDEB and Prova Brasil, for students of the 5th year (fourth grade) elementary school of municipal and state of Sao Paulo, considering the typology to the IBGE classification of schools in rural and urban areas and the place of residence of the students as a way to characterize the level of rural schools. Work organized a diagnosis of ongoing policies; suggests some guidelines for the improvement of future interventions in this area of government action and, shows that in many situations, the performance of schools "rural" considering the items analyzed is lower than the performance of schools urban.