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São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil · Private
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Colégio Petrópolis in São Bernardo do Campo works as a single whole with its Escola Aquarela Kids nursery: creche, pre-school groups, primary and lower secondary school and three years of upper secondary. The school calls itself international and builds its programme on the British curriculum up to the eighth year and the American one in High School, promising its leavers two certificates, a Brazilian one and an American one. The upper years offer preparation for the Cambridge English exams FCE and CAE, the Spanish DELE and a long list of after-school activities: from swimming and taekwondo to chess, cheerleading and robotics. The campus has a swimming pool, a sports court, a gymnastics and taekwondo hall, a library, computing and robotics rooms, a theatre, a music room, a canteen and a park. The school does not publish its fees: it has no section on costs at all, and entry to Ensino Médio runs through a selection contest with scholarships awarded in proportion to the result of a written paper. The school names neither its number of pupils, nor its founding year, nor a list of its leavers' universities, nor any exam results.
Key facts
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Portuguese, English
About the fees The school has no section on tuition fees: no annual charge, no monthly charge and no additional payments are named on the site. The only thing it says about money is the selection contest for Ensino Médio, where "os estudantes fazem uma prova e ganham bolsas de estudo proporcionais ao seu desempenho", that is, the reduction depends on the result of the paper, while the size of the reductions is not disclosed.
Admissions The school takes pupils into Ensino Médio through a selection contest: "o Colégio Petrópolis oferece o Processo Seletivo para Ensino Médio, por meio do qual os estudantes fazem uma prova e ganham bolsas de estudo proporcionais ao seu desempenho". Enrolment in the creche and the pre-school groups goes through a request for a visit and a conversation with the admissions team.
Stages and year groups Grades Berçário - 3º ano do Ensino Médio. The school runs a creche, Maternal, Infantil I-IV, the first to the ninth year of Ensino Fundamental and three years of Ensino Médio: the page sets out the band "1º ANO... 9º ANO, 1º ANO E.M., 2º ANO E.M., 3º ANO E.M.", while the creche and the pre-school stages are described separately.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeThe Cambridge school register gives the school as the line "Colegio Petropolis | Brazil | Yes", that is, as taking private candidates. The school itself names no Cambridge stage by name: in its own words, "os alunos estudam outras disciplinas que compõem o currículo britânico (até o oitavo ano) e o americano (na High School)", and the only Cambridge items in its programme are the language exams: "Cambridge English Prep Classes: FCE - First for Schools" in the first year of Ensino Médio and "CAE - Advanced" in the second. Cambridge and IGCSE appear nowhere else on the school's pages: the one other occurrence of the word Cambridge is the Cambridgeside Galleria shopping centre in the Boston trip.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school lists its rooms with photographs: recepti, hall, coaching room, inner courtyard, park, winter park, canteen, art room, robotics room, classrooms, library, computing room, music room, swimming pool, sports court, gymnastics and taekwondo hall. At the pre-school stage these are joined by a theatre, a technology laboratory, a robotics laboratory, a "Babies Corner", a park for the creche group, a reception room, a themed park and "Fields Experience".
Clubs and activities: Swimming · Football · Rhythmic gymnastics · Taekwondo · Handball · Basketball · Volleyball · Table tennis · Badminton · Guitar · Theatre · Fitness · Cheerleading · Chess · Robotics · Ballet · Swimming for early years · Music lessons · Student council · Film club · Digital media · Subject olympiads
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
By name the school publishes only its management and coordination team: proprietor and director Ricardo Gaspar, head of school Neyde Müller, academic director Maria Creusa, head of the pre-school stage Vânia Peres Coianiz, director of infrastructure Renato Massuella Salvador, coordinators Milena Anselmo, Fábio Rodrigues, Geovani Baione, Tarik Dib, Paulo Monteiro (Head of International Educati), Deisy Regina Tres, Patricia Serrão and five educational advisers by stage (Rosana Teles, Carla Franchi, Lilian Cabrera, Regiane Neves, Elisangela Aquino). There is no teaching staff, no number of teachers and no pupil-teacher ratio on its pages.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)60 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median70 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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