Escola Suíço-Brasileira de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil · est. 1965 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
educationsuisse · accreditationAssociação Escola Suíço-Brasileira · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
State recognition by Switzerland: the school follows the Swiss curriculum and takes pupils to the Swiss Matura, usually bilingual, alongside the certificate of the host country. Each school has a patron canton answerable for the content of the programme. Sixteen schools are recognised worldwide, so this is a narrow list rather than an industry association: far more schools call themselves Swiss.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →The school programme of Switzerland. Schools abroad recognised by the Confederation take pupils through to the Swiss maturity certificate, the Matura, used for entry to Swiss universities. There are sixteen recognised schools in the whole world, and each has a sponsoring canton answering for the content of the programme.
What this means for this school. In a school abroad the Swiss maturity is usually bilingual and runs alongside the certificate of the host country, so a leaver ends up with two documents. Recognition is granted to the school as a whole rather than to separate stages, unlike French homologation, which covers now one set of year groups, now another.
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.
A non-profit organisation that maintains two schools: Escola Suíço-Brasileira de São Paulo and Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba. Both are recognised and supported by the government of Switzerland and the patron cantons of Basel and Aargau, and also by the education secretariats of the states of São Paulo and Paraná. The dates of foundation of the association itself differ between the pages of the two schools: 20 August 1965 on the São Paulo page and 10 June 1979 on the Curitiba page. The college in Curitiba opened on 3 March 1980 and was recognised by the government of Switzerland in 1983.
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.