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Curitiba, Brazil · est. 1977 · Private
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A campus of the Colégio Positivo network in the Mercês district of Curitiba, next to Praça da Ucrânia; the network opened it in 1977, when it first took on the younger years. It runs classes from Educação Infantil, from the age of one, up to the ninth year of Ensino Fundamental; there is no senior stage here. Lessons are in Portuguese, and English comes as a separate block: the half-day preschool group has thirty per cent of its lessons in English, while the full-day bilingual programme has fifteen hours of English a week, and from the fifth year the school provides mock examinations and internationally recognised Cambridge International certificates. On the campus there are a sports hall, several courts, a semi-Olympic pool, a grove and a large lawn known here as the "gramadão", a library of 19,710 titles and 26,548 volumes, a "Casa de Leitura" reading house for preschoolers, two CLiP language rooms, a science laboratory, music and drama rooms, a kitchen for gastronomy lessons, a dining hall with a canteen and separate parking for parents. Entry to the campus is through turnstiles with facial recogniti, and the campus has pedagogical, psychological, medical and nutrition services, though the school shows the staff of these only in photographs. The school publishes no fees, no student numbers, no teacher numbers, no examination results and no summer camp, and it gives neither a full list of clubs nor how many of them there are.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Portuguese
About the fees The school states no fees either on the campus page or in the enrolment secti: the amount is given on enquiry, and in the enrolment portal a parent only chooses a payment method - bank slip, card or an instant PIX transfer. The network does run a competition for fee discounts, but for entry in 2027 it has been announced only at the Jardim Ambiental campus.
Admissions The procedure is the same across the network and is set out in four steps: an enquiry through the website, in person at the campus or by telephone to the enrolment centre; a tour of the campus with a member of the school's staff; an application through the messenger service and the enrolment portal, where the details of the pupil and the guardians are entered, a payment method is chosen and the contract is printed; and the handing over of documents by post or in pers. Documents: CPF and identity papers for the pupil and the guardians, a birth certificate, a vaccination record, proof of address and a record from the previous school. The school names no entrance examinations.
Stages and year groups Grades Educação Infantil (1 a 5 anos) - Ensino Fundamental Anos Finais (6º ao 9º Ano). Three stages: Educação Infantil from one to five years old, Ensino Fundamental Anos Iniciais from the first to the fifth year, and Anos Finais from the sixth to the ninth. The campus has no senior stage: on its page the Ensino Médio tab reads "Sem horários cadastrados" and "Sem diferenciais cadastrados". Hours by stage: preschool from 8:00 to 17:35 or from 7:40 to 17:55, the lower years of Ensino Fundamental from 7:30 to 18:25, the upper years of the main stage from 7:20 to 18:10; the campus is open from 7:00 to 19:00. Formats: half day, full day and extracurricular activities. The school publishes neither class sizes nor the number of classes.
Address Rua Marcelino Champagnat, 733, Mercês, Curitiba-PR, CEP 80.710-250
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeGrupo Positivo · school is part of the networkOn its own page the school describes its Cambridge listing only as endorsement and certificati: "os estudantes contam com a chancela da Cambridge International, que garante simulados e certificações reconhecidas mundialmente a partir do 5º ano". The school names no Cambridge stage at all - neither Primary, nor Lower Secondary, nor IGCSE - on the campus page or in the network's bilingual secti, where the subject is Cambridge Assessment English certificates. Separately: the campus goes up to the ninth year of Ensino Fundamental and has no senior stage.
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.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Grupo Positivoschool network
A Brazilian group of companies, founded in 1972. Its divisions: Colégio Positivo, Curso Positivo, Editora Aprende Brasil, Posigraf, Positivo Tecnologia, Instituto Positivo and the central administration. The school division shows 11 sites in four cities: seven in Curitiba, including Positivo International School, two in Joinville, one each in Londrina and Ponta Grossa. The site gives no combined figures for the group.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: Named: a sports hall, several courts and a semi-Olympic pool, a sports complex with dance, gymnastics and judo studios, a cultural complex with a music room and a drama room, art rooms for the three stages, a science laboratory, two CLiP language rooms, a library of 19,710 titles and 26,548 volumes, a "Casa de Leitura" reading house for preschoolers, "Areia Azul" as an extension of the classroom, a vertical maze called the "brinquedão", a food area with a dining hall and a canteen and a menu that allows for dietary restrictions, separate rest areas for each stage, a grove and a large lawn, a kitchen for gastronomy lessons, an individual room for working without distractions, separate entrances for the preschool and the school stages, and parking for parents. The school gives neither the area of the campus, nor the number of buildings, nor the number of classrooms; there is no boarding and no school transport.
Clubs and activities: Rhythmic gymnastics · Dance · Swimming · Jazz · Futsal · Theatre · Basketball
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access controlTurnstiles with facial recogniti: "Visando elevar os padrões de segurança na entrada dos estudantes, nossas catracas possuem reconhecimento facial".
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
At the campus the school names four services - pedagogical, psychological, medical and nutrition - but shows the people in them only in photographs, without names and without numbers.
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 data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 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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