The search studies the academic climate and his manifestations on the classrooms and on the schools in Rio de Janeiro what taking part of the GERES Project. The first goal, from the literature review about effective schools, was verify if the GERES teacher questionnaire can measure academic climate. With the appropriated static treatment, seven scales were built related to the concept: four of school level (principal leadership, responsible of apprenticeship, collaborated job and violence) and three of classroom level (interruption of class, utilization of resources didactic and practices of reading). These scales have been submitted to models of explanation from proficiency, whose result reveals what researches in this area had already indicated - the difficult of looking to classroom, especially in the early years of basic education.