The school talks about the expanded possibilities of young people entering Basic Education, however, especially in High School, what draws attention is the high number of those who stop attending classes and do not complete the training, as well as those who complete it in a more precarious way, due to the repeated interruptions. In a school in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, attention was drawn to the fact that this distance from school life at the beginning of high school reached significant numbers in the first semester of the year of entry, and that most of the students in this school were black. Therefore, the pertinence of the question about the causes that led to the problem is undeniable, considering that education is a human right, as expressed in the Constitution of Brazil and provided for in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The best response found will be the one that ensures the rights provided, facing racism, poverty, violence and abandonment, causes that generate exclusion. The method used in this research comprises fragments of the researcher s memory in his trajectory as a teacher at the mentioned school, supported by a bibliographic review. The idea of youth favors the explicitness of what should be called black youth. In the same way, racism, as a structuring factor of Brazilian society, analyzed in isolation, and in its junction with High School, forms the basis for the denomination of the concept of school exclusion