Abstract

The School Quality Measurement System (SIMCE) has statistically demonstrated that education delivered in our schools entails wide degrees of unequity related with their dependence, in other words whether they are Privates (with any contribution from the state), subsidized (with contributions from the State directly to a private owner) or Municipal (with contributions from the State directly to the Municipalities which administrate one or a group of schools considered from the state). From this reality, this work has been proposed as the main purpose, to perform a comparative study of the performance in the SIMCE test, of the students of fourth grade of primary school in the municipality of San Antonio of the Valparaíso Region, in the central zone From Chile. To achieve the goals set, we proceed to perform a statistical analysis of the respective scores for the years 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In general, it is corroborated that there is a correlation between the socioeconomic level of the school and the respective student performance