The invisibility of the problems of the students' paths: from schools registers to the manufacturing of official educational statistics (Minas Gerais, 1907-1917)

This paper aims to grasp the ways of manufacturing the school records at one elementary school and the public administration of state government. The analysis was built following the trajectory of modes of production these data from school documentation until their publication in the official records: reports and the journal School Life. Records of official publications between 1907-1917 were based in the recurring categories such as registration, attendance, course approvals and conclusion of courses. Data related to the Paula Rocha Elementary School, Sabará/MG, present details that reveal the institution's richness and its problems, such as school dropout and repetition. Conversely, official data reconstruct these records producing an image of the school as a bottom up process, after the 1906 Reform.