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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Private
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Cubo Global School is a private school in Rio de Janeiro with three units: Botafogo on Rua Bambina, Barra da Tijuca in Bosque Marapendi and the new Barra Golf. Teaching follows the Brazilian BNCC curriculum together with the international Cambridge programme, half the lessons are in English, the senior units add Spanish, and Botafogo Mandarin as well. The school runs years from the 1º ano of Ensino Fundamental to the 3º ano of Ensino Médio, and the day is half-extended: lessons from the morning to the middle of the day, with the After School programme running until seven in the evening. The units have STEAM laboratories, maker rooms, sports courts, vegetable gardens, a library, assembly halls and art rooms. The school itself writes that its Ensino Fundamental I is available now at Barra da Tijuca, now at Barra Golf, now at Botafogo - admission to a particular unit is worth asking the secretariat about. The school names neither fees, nor admission requirements, nor the number of pupils, nor its teaching staff on the site.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Portuguese, English, Spanish
About the fees The school does not publish its fees: on the "Matrículas" page a visit booking form stands in place of prices, and the site has no separate section on charges.
Stages and year groups Grades 1º ano do Ensino Fundamental - 3ª série do Ensino Médio. The school names three stages: Ensino Fundamental I "do 1º ao 5º ano", Ensino Fundamental II "do 6º ao 9º ano" and Ensino Médio, which prepares pupils for the Brazilian entrance examinations and for universities abroad. On Ensino Fundamental I the site speaks differently in different places: the stage page says "Disponível na unidade Barra da Tijuca", the "Matrículas" page says "Disponível nas unidades Bosque Marapendi e Barra Golf", and the Botafogo page says "Em 2026, um novo segmento disponível na Unidade Botafogo do Cubo Global School: o Ensino Fundamental I". Both senior stages the site calls available at all three units.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeschool 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 poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓LaboratoriesA natural science laboratory and STEAM rooms at the Bosque Marapendi and Botafogo units.
✓Theatre or assembly hallAssembly halls at Barra Golf and Botafogo.
✓LibraryA large library at the Botafogo unit, a "biblioteca interativa" in the description of all the units.
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: Barra Golf - an area of more than five thousand square metres: modern and accessible classrooms, sports courts, a pupils' lounge, a music room, a maker room, an assembly hall. Bosque Marapendi - almost six thousand square metres: classrooms, sports courts, vegetable gardens, a laboratory and a maker room, a STEAM room. Botafogo - a building with modular classrooms, a natural science laboratory, a STEAM room, an art room and gallery, a large library, an assembly hall, a multi-purpose court. Garden: vegetable gardens at Bosque Marapendi.
Clubs and activities (15): Basketball · Volleyball · Footvolley · Jazz · Crosskids · Aerial silks · Stagecraft · Careers guidance · Writing project · Mathematics project · Capoeira · Futsal · Judo · Dubbing · UERJ writing course
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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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