Abstract:

School is a place where the needs of the state and individual citizens meet. The state, through school, seeks to reproduce human resources capable of ensuring the country's social and economic development. Through school, citizens are able to meet the need for quality education as a starting point for development and self-realization. The school lays the foundation for the idea of success (including educational), and strategies for success are formed. These visions and strategies depend not only on institutional conditions (public policies), but also on organizational conditions.

The aim of the article is to analyze the impact of school conditions on (non)success of students. The following were singled out as concrete conditions influencing the social (non)success of educational communities: type of school, composition of teachers, socio-psychological climate at school, material and technical equipment of school, model of school interaction with children and parents.

The empirical basis of the article is the results of research conducted in 2019-2020:
1) a mass survey of parents of schoolchildren in Yekaterinburg (2019, n = 7281);
2) a semi-formalized expert interview with representatives of educational organizations of different types in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk region (2020, n = 30);
3) focus groups with students (2020, n = 8).

The article shows that the type of school, subject knowledge of teachers, material and technical equipment of the school are important, but not the main conditions for the educational success of students. The most important school condition of social (not)success is the social-psychological climate in the school, and the leading role in its formation is given to the school director.

The conclusion is made that in order to create a favorable socio-psychological climate at school (as the basis for educational success) it is necessary to build relationships and interactions of the administration, teachers, students and parents on a parity basis of allies, (not rivals), freedom of choice and responsibility for their choice, humanism, respect.

Keywords:

School, schoolchildren, teachers, parents, school conditions.