Escola Lourenço Castanho

São Paulo, Brazil. LC operates across four campuses: Unidade Diogo Jácome, 224; Unidade Lourenço Castanho, 273; Unidade JK, Av. Antônio Joaquim de Moura Andrade, 731; and Unidade Alto da Boa Vista, Rua Comendador Elias Zarzur, 301. The Vila Nova Conceição area hosts the Diogo Jácome and Lourenço Castanho campuses; the JK campus is located on Moura Andrade Ave; and the Alto da Boa Vista campus is on Zarzur Street.

From Early Childhood through High School (Educação Infantil through Ensino Médio). Includes Educação Infantil, Ensino Fundamental I, Ensino Fundamental II, and Ensino Médio.

Private day school; IB World School with Diploma Programme; offers curricular English and Spanish and German language study (Goethe Institute partnership).

Overview of fees (summary for 2025/26 where 2026/27 details are not published)

- Enrollment (one‑time) fee: BRL 5,709.00 – BRL 7,260.00 depending on year group and unit.

Tuition (monthly) by year group

- Education Infantil (Early Years / Infantil): BRL 9,353.00 per month.
- Fundamental I (Early Primary): BRL 10,106.00 per month.
- Fundamental II (Upper Primary / Middle years): BRL 10,834.00 per month.
- Ensino Médio (High School / IB Diploma years): BRL 11,103.00 per month.

Approximate annual totals (for reference)

- Annual total (approximate) is the listed monthly fee multiplied by 12 (monthly × 12). Example: Fundamental I annual ≈ BRL 121,272.00 (BRL 10,106.00 × 12). These annual figures are calculated from the monthly figures above.

Billing schedule and payment terms

- Fees are published as a one‑time enrollment charge (matrícula) plus a recurring monthly tuition (mensalidade). The school's public materials identify a matrícula and mensalidade structure. Specific billing dates, the exact number of installments accepted for the annual tuition, and late‑payment penalties are not published in the publicly available fee summaries.

Boarding / boarding fees

- The school operates as day school across its units in São Paulo (multiple unit addresses are listed); there are no published boarding/internato options or boarding fees.

Other costs and fees

- Material didático (LC didactic materials): Certain personalized LC items and common classroom supplies (agenda, LC notebooks, portfolio folders, ateliê materials, some maker/graphic materials) are provided and the school states the value of these LC didactic materials is included in the mensalidade. Individual family purchase items and some consumables appear separately on published material lists.
- Uniforms: Uniform purchasing is directed to a school‑partner online store (NewVeste). Families purchase uniforms via that vendor. Costs for uniform sets are not published on the school pages.
- Library fines / small fees: the school's library regulations include specific small daily fines for overdue items (example: R$1.00 per day per item in the library regulations). Other incidental fees (replacements, extracurricular program fees, special projects or trips) are not itemized in the public fee summaries.

Refunds and withdrawal

- A specific published refund policy (amounts refundable on withdrawal, deadlines or proration rules) is not publicly posted in the available school fee summaries and regulation files. Information on refunds or credit for withdrawals is not found in the publicly available fee listings.

Fee payment options

- Publicly available pages and the school's registration portal show the enrollment process and unit contacts but do not publish a definitive list of accepted payment methods (for example, bank transfer, boleto, PIX or credit card) in the fee summaries. The school uses an online registration and school‑management portals for enrollment and administration. Specific accepted payment methods and installment options should be confirmed directly with the school's finance/administrative office.

Brief note about currency and year

- All amounts above are presented in Brazilian reais (BRL). The numeric figures above are taken from public reporting of school fees for the 2025 (2025/26) period where available; the school has not published a public 2026/27 fee schedule in the materials accessible for this review.

Summary of what was found and what is not publicly available

- Found: media compilations (Forbes and press) that list one‑time enrollment charges and monthly tuition figures for each school stage; official school documents that confirm which didactic materials are included in the monthly fee and that identify the uniform vendor and administrative portals.
- Not found in public documents: a current (2026/27) itemized fee schedule from the school; definitive billing calendar (exact number of installments, invoice dates), explicit list of accepted payment methods, detailed refundable amounts and deadlines on withdrawal, and per‑activity pricing for optional extracurriculars. For those items there is no published breakdown in the school documents and press summaries accessed.