O artigo discute os resultados obtidos pelos alunos dos Cursos Pré-Vestibulares Comunitários do Rio de Janeiro, no ENEM 2006. Os 350 professores desses alunos, todos voluntários, participaram de atividades de Capacitação voltadas para o desenvolvimento das habilidades do ENEM. Os alunos desses professores, além de material didático, realizaram um Simulado do ENEM, em junho de 2006. Pesquisando os resultados desses alunos, no ENEM, constatou-se que eles obtiveram médias maiores do que as obtidas pelos alunos brasileiros e do Rio de Janeiro. Os alunos dos Pré-Vestibulares Comunitários, têm renda familiar menor, são mais velhos e, em maior percentual, se declararam pretos e pardos, quando comparados com os alunos brasileiros e do Rio de Janeiro. Essas variáveis, em geral, estão associadas a piores desempenhos. Os autores discutem o possível impacto da capacitação dos professores nos resultados positivos obtidos pelos alunos no ENEM 2006.

This article presents and analyses the students results from Community Courses for Admission in Higher Education obtained in the Brazilian National Exam of Secondary Education (ENEM) 2006. Volunteer teachers, in a total of 350, were trained to be able to develop ENEM abilities in their classes. Their students received classes and instructional materials related to those abilities and also took a simulated exam with 42 questions from former ENEM. Results showed that these students reached greater means than those presented by the Brazilian and Rio de Janeiro peers in the 2006 Exam. Socioeconomic variables like family income, age and ethnic groups were controlled and it was verified that students' means were higher when compared to the Brazilian means in the same strata. In general, those mentioned variables are associated to students' lower results. The authors consider students good performance as a possible impact of their teachers' empowerment through the specific training and students motivation as well.