The following study aimed at relating the program of school evaluation and accountability - Nova Escola- to the current evaluation of public high school in Rio de Janeiro state. Our principal objective was to verify to which extent the program can be related to the evolution of the school results from 2000 to 2005. From a qualitative perpective, the Nova Escola was analysed under the light of a documented research, which has as principal objective the documentation on the program itself. It was attempted to understand the nature of the process of accountability, the evaluation tools used along the years, as well as the oscillations they have between the categories of evaluation - based in result, process, norm, criterion, and school progress. In another perspective, quantitative-oriented, it was observed the data concerning proficiency (Saeb) and flow (Censo Escolar) correspond ing the same period. This data was observed by means of a comparison with school results from other states Brazil. Close to the flow data were possible to verify a small improvement in the first biennium of the program, but that was not sustained the following years. In the proficiency and, Portuguese Language the state obtained a better acting in relation to other states. In a general way an impact of the program was verified on the school results as a whole that, although less significant in some indicators, it turned stabled the results scholars of the state of RJ.