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Compare International Schools in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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Instructs in English
Ages 4 - null years
Pupils 400
Type Co-educational
Escola Americana de Belo Horizonte (EABH) serves PK-12 students in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, as the region's sole American-style school. It is a non-profit association reinvesting tuition into education. EABH offers three diploma pathways: Brazilian, American, and IB/AP program incorporating IB PYP and MYP with AP Capstone. Instruction is in English; Spanish is introduced in grade 6 and Mandarin from grade 11. Portuguese is taught through Brazilian programs, and literacy is bilingual in English and Portuguese. The northern-hemisphere calendar runs August–June. Class sizes are small: PK 18 students; K–5 classrooms have two full-time teachers (one foreign, one Brazilian). The campus covers 24,000 m2 and features spacious classrooms, Theater, Music, and Visual Arts spaces, science, language, and technology labs, a multi-sport gym, a natural grass field, an outdoor court, a restaurant, and a library with international collection. Athletics include Hawks and Lady Hawks; NHS and student council support leadership and service.
Fundação Torino is an Italo‑Brazilian international school located in the Belvedere / Nova Lima area of Belo Horizonte. It offers a bicultural programme combining the Brazilian curriculum with the Italian curriculum (escola paritária italiana), with stages from Scuola Materna (education for children aged 2–5) through Scuola Elementare (ages 6–10), Scuola Media and Scuola Superiore (upper secondary); at the end of Ensino Médio students receive Brazilian certification and, where applicable, an Italian diploma that permits university entry in EU countries. Instruction is bilingual in Portuguese and Italian; English is introduced from Scuola Materna and Spanish and Latin are taught in later years. Facilities listed on the school site include the Fab Lab Leonardo da Vinci, a sports school, a sensory laboratory for early years, science laboratories, the Biblioteca Dante Alighieri and an on‑site cultural space. The school runs integration and immersion programmes (PIE) for incoming students and offers exchange periods with partner schools in Italy.