The present study has the purpose to identify and analyze the meaning of school failure to social actors that use or work in the Program of School Health Primary Care - PROASE (family members, health and education professionals) and to articulate their discourse with the official discourse in order to establish the program's future actions. Our study has a qualitative theoretical framework based in Minayo (1992). One area where PROASE develops its activities was chosen and by semistructured interviews and documentation analysis it was possible to know how the three segments that compose the sample understand the meaning of school failure.
low outcomes at school; health occupations; school students; nursing