This research aims to contribute to the debate of the emerging quilombola school education policy based on the experience of implementing a quilombola school project in the community of Santa Rita do Bracuí, Angra dos Reis, RJ. In order to do so, we offer an analysis of this experience, considering three important moments that are intertwined in this trajectory of struggle for an education that dialogues with the local culture, its knowledge, political struggles and specific way of life: a past marked by slavery, struggling for the land and the permanence in the territory, a present that incorporates new contours of these same struggles added to the demand of a quilombola school education having as a basis the set of existing legislation for the fulfillment of the referred policy. And, finally, the paths and misplaced paths, the strategies consolidated in / for the effectiveness of this experience lived in the municipal school inserted in the territory of the quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí. The development of the research takes place in the interface of anthropology with the field of education thought from three theoretical pillars that, although distinct, dialog with each other: the decolonial, intercultural perspective and differentiated education. The theoretical-methodological option used for the field work was the ethnography allied to participant observation, interviews and document analysis. From the research carried out in this community, it can be seen that the process of political struggle experienced by the quilombola leaders of Santa Rita do Bracuí denotes insurgent trajectories, subversive strategies and the construction of emancipatory knowledge that point out, among other things, unique dilemmas and options for the reflection about how the mode of quilombola school education has been conceived and built by the communities themselves, even before the publication of the respective legal texts that subsidize their rights to a differentiated education. We also understand that the Quilombola School claimed by quilombo leaderships, besides being conceived as an important space for the strengthening of local culture, can be understood as a space for the struggle for territory. In 2018, the Federal Constitution of 1988 and its 68 article completed 30 years. Nevertheless, we see a series of antidemocratic and racist discourses strongly emerging in Brazilian political horizon. One of the targets of this new political policy is precisely suppressing rights from the quilombola communities. This way, the present thesis, besides the analysis of an experience carried out by quilombolas and a school project based on this movement, brings with it important issues that present themselves as challenges in what concerns the promotion, implementation and continuity of educational policies aimed at the recognition of ethnic and cultural differences, as well as subsidizing reflections and inspiring other struggles in the educational field. Nevertheless, the experience investigated here was built from a community demand triggered by a specific educational policy, differentiated and weakened in such times. Thus, in the face of a political scenario marked by the retreat of some of these policies, which have been consolidating in previous governments, we understand that the experience brought here reflects processes of counter-hegemonic and decolonial struggles as they are carried out by these individuals, Others, who suffered a history of submission and subordination. Consequently, while reporting the processes that touch the differences on the school itself, the mechanisms that reinforce the subaltern conditions of certain groups, announce processes of transgression and epistemic disobedience that have been happening in decolonial gaps, spaces.