A gestao escolar democratica e tida como elemento imprescindivel a qualidade do ensino por varios autores e profissionais da educacao. Entretanto, ha tambem por parte deles o reconhecimento da enorme distancia entre um ideal democratico de administracao escolar e a realidade, especialmente neste caso, a brasileira. Tendo em vista a notoria relevância desse tema para o cenario nacional de educacao e ensino, este estudo teve por objetivo analisar essa dimensao da qualidade a partir do estudo de caso na Escola Municipal de Educacao Basica Alfredo Naime, do municipio de Bebedouro, a qual passou pelos processos de avaliacao propostos no INDIQUE (2009), elaborados pela parceria entre: Acao Educativa, UNICEF, PNUD, INEP e MEC, os quais correspondiam cientifica e metodologicamente aos anseios desta pesquisa. Para a analise foram utilizadas informacoes do Plano Gestor da escola e principalmente do relatorio gerado pelo processo do INDIQUE na escola. Tambem foram feitos acompanhamentos de atividades escolares assim como entrevistas semi-estruturadas e nao-estruturadas a todos os principais atores da instituicao de ensino (alunos, pais, professores, gestores e funcionarios) a fim de colher opinioes e perspectivas dos entrevistados sobre o tema. Concluiu-se que, apesar de restricoes principalmente externas, mas tambem internas, a uma gestao escolar democratica, os atores escolares da EMEB Alfredo Naime mostraram que rumam a uma gestao democratizante. A outra principal conclusao diz respeito ao INDIQUE, que se mostrou um rico instrumento de avaliacao coletiva efetivamente democratico e contribuidor para a escola em diversas dimensoes educacionais.

The democratic school management is seen as an indispensable element of educational quality by several authors and education professionals. However, they also recognize the enormous gap between a democratic ideal and the reality of school administration, especially in this case, the Brazilian situation. Given the evident importance of this issue to the national arena of education and teaching, this study aimed to analyze this dimension of quality from the case study at the Municipal School of Basic Education Alfredo Naime, from the city of Bebedouro, which has passed by the assessment procedures proposed in the INDIQUE (2009), prepared by the partnership: Educational Action, UNICEF, UNDP, INEP and MEC, which corresponded to the scientifically and methodologically perspectives of this research. For the analysis were used information of the Plan Manager of the school and especially the report generated by the Educational Quality Indicators process in the school. Were also made follow-school activities as well as semi-structured and unstructured interviews to all major actors from the school (students, parents, teachers, managers and employees) in order to collect opinions and perspectives of those interviewed on the subject. It was concluded that, despite restrictions mainly external, but internal too, to a democratic school management, the school actors of Municipal School Alfredo Naime showed that tend to a democratizing management. The other main finding relates to Educational Quality Indicators, that proved to be a rich collective assessment tool, effectively democratic and contributor to the school in various dimensions of education.