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The Colegio Miguel de Cervantes began with the driving force of great ideals. Its history is made up of dreams, concrete challenges, hard work, utopia and reality. The idea, conceived in the 1960s by a group of Spaniards living in São Paulo, was to establish an educational and cultural center that would disseminate Spanish language and culture and promote multicultural integration representative of Brazilian society. Founded in 1978, the school's mission centers on an interdisciplinary, globalized project that integrates Brazilian and Spanish curricula and provides a comprehensive, diversified, and personalized education. ACESP (Associação Colégio Espanhol de São Paulo) is the maintaining entity.
Cervantes Solidário is a program created over 15 years ago to promote social and educational actions in communities near Colégio Miguel de Cervantes. In 2022, the program defined pillars of sustainability, education, and citizenship, guided by concepts of Strategic Philanthropy, Private Social Investment and Educational Volunteerism, and aligned with the United Nations SDG 2030 as a transformation tool. The program serves children and adolescents from public schools through projects such as language and arts workshops, music, sports, games, storytelling, and Spanish classes. In 2023, Cervantes Solidário served 1,862 people, with more than 100,000 total attendances, and works to broaden access to culture, arts, reading, Spanish language learning and sport, while fostering transparency and measuring social impact.
ACESP, the Associação Colégio Espanhol de São Paulo, is the maintaining entity of the school.
Colégio Miguel de Cervantes is a bilingual, multicultural school in São Paulo delivering the IB Diploma Programme to students from 3 to 18. Founded in 1978 by Spanish residents, the school blends Spanish-Brazilian private education and aims to promote Spanish language and culture. The three-level structure is Educación Infantil, Ensino Fundamental, and Enseñanza Media, with personalized teaching and development of the whole person. The campus in Morumbi covers 57,000 m2, including 17,854 m2 of green space and 107 learning environments. Facilities include a library expanded to three floors (over 45,000 reference works), a Documentation Center, STEAM space with 3D printers and a laser cutter, laboratories, a theater, music rooms, pools, and sports areas. The school offers exam preparation for Cambridge and DELE, and diplomas are valid in Brazil and Spain; a dual qualification is available. The Cervantes Solidário program supports sociocultural initiatives in the community, and students have access to European universities through the IB and dual diploma pathways.
