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Ideb; School Management; Assessment.
This work aims to understand the configuration of school management in the municipal network of Natal/RN made possible by the use of indicators determined by the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb). The study addresses the performance of school management, considering social and economic factors that give rise to a prominent position in external evaluation processes in basic education and the creation of Ideb. This indicator was created in 2007, with the aim of monitoring quality goals for basic education, using information regarding performance in standardized exams and information from the school census. From a methodological point of view, we used dialectical historical materialism as a basis and technical research procedures: bibliographical review, document analysis and interviews with management teams in schools in the municipal public network of Natal, as well as technicians from the Municipal Department of Education of Natal/ RN. The analysis of the research shows that based on the Ideb result, school managers feel anxious, responsible for the index score, which is why when it is announced, they already look for ways to (re)plan actions, in case of low performance; they also organize ways to dialogue with the school community about the grade and how to improve it.