We treat high school here, considering it as a stage of school education required for the formation of young independent, able to cope with the everyday adult life, including being productive. It questions the possibility of effective democratization of school, considering the increase in supply and their qualification for the second Lula government (2007-2010). Through a research based on archives and literature we found that there was a significant progress about the "cost student". From the point of view of ensuring access and permanence of students in high school, the advances are small, especially good for increasing the net registration rate in high school and as a negative highlight the large number of registrations in a precarious situation . Noting further that the design of integrated high school, taken as a strategy for qualifying school, has been object of reductionism in the official policies of the period.