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Welcome

Welcome to Avenues São Paulo. This website provides you with all the information you need to prepare for a smooth start of school in January 2024. Please take a moment to take all the required steps below and visit it regularly for updates. We can't wait to see you on campus!

What to do now

Your child will be ready to start school only AFTER you complete all the steps in this section.

Complete the Enrollment Checklist in the Admissions Portal

Upload your child's school transcript
Upload your documents as a parent
Upload the required photos
Input your car information
Download the Health Forms and set up an appointment with your child's doctor to fill them out

Important: Please scan the signed forms and save them in a convenient location. Before school starts in January, you will receive your credentials to our parent portal, Avenues OPEN, and will be able to upload the health forms there.

Access the admissions portal

Save these dates

Primary Division (Small World through 5th Grade)

Week of December 18, 2023: You will receive your credentials to access Avenues OPEN, our community portal, and you will be able to upload health forms, update your family profile and sign school policies.
Week of January 15, 2024: Families in the Primary Division receive an email with their child's class assignment, detailed information about school start, and an invite to schedule a virtual parent-teacher meeting.
Tuesday, January 23: Do not miss our Welcome Session in the morning for all new parents on campus! You will have the opportunity to meet the Primary Division leadership team in person and get ready for a smooth start. You will receive the official invite with more details in August but should already save the date.
Sunday, January 28: You will receive the first Sunday bulletin in your email inbox.
Monday, January 29: First day of school for all grades

Secondary Division (6th through 12th Grade)

Week of December 18, 2023: You will receive your credentials to access Avenues OPEN, our community portal, and you will be able to upload health forms, update your family profile and sign school policies.
Tuesday, January 23: Do not miss our Welcome Session in the morning for all new families on campus! You will have the opportunity to meet the Secondary Division team in person and get ready for a smooth start.
January 23-24: In-person Welcome Session for students in 6th through 12th grades. ALLI students should only attend the January 23 sessions. The detailed schedule per grade will be shared soon.
Sunday, January 28: You will receive the first Sunday bulletin in your email inbox, with all the information you need for a smooth start.
Monday, January 29: First day of school for all grades

Helpful Resources

School calendar

Avenues São Paulo's typical school year is full of events—exhibitions, performances, cross-cultural exchanges, information sessions for parents, student innovation and community events. Soon you will have access to Avenues OPEN, our community portal. Then you will be able to add our campus calendar to your personal Google, Apple or Outlook calendar to make sure you will not miss any school event!

You may find below a year-long PDF calendar with important dates (start of school, breaks and holidays).

Access our 2023–24 PDF calendar

Access our 2024–25 PDF calendar

School hours

See the school hours for the 2023–24 school year.

Access School Hours

Style guide and uniform

Our Style Guide reinforces a sense of belonging by making our students easily recognizable to one another and other members of our community. It provides us with a sense of identity with enough flexibility for individuals to personalize their choice of clothing. What the Style Guide is intended to accomplish are the following:

Define an Avenues identity.
Avoid advertising differences in economic circumstances.

The Avenues uniform is optional. Avenues-logo items can be purchased at Cotton House or the official Avenues Store (shipped from the US).

Avenues Style Guide

Technology

Avenues recognizes the power of technology to enhance the learning experience for our students. The technology team aims to work in partnership with our parent, student and faculty community to ensure the success of the technology program.

Students from Small World, nursery and pre-K have shared iPad kits available in the classrooms. Students in kindergarten through 5th grade receive an iPad. Also, each 5th grade classroom is also equipped with a MacBook cart to help students transition from Primary to Secondary. Students from 6th through 12th grade receive a MacBook Air, iPad and Apple Pencil.

New students starting in 6th through 12th grade will receive their devices during New Student Orientation. Please note that parents or guardians with students in these grades will need to digitally sign a lease agreement.

Transportation

School bus services are provided by Bus Children to all students, transforming their commute into an opportunity to socialize with peers and become more independent. Bus Children has been working with Avenues São Paulo since our campus opened in 2018 and is a valued partner in reducing traffic during arrival and dismissal and promoting more sustainability within our community.

Registration and payment for bus services are managed directly through our partner Bus Children. Families who wish to hire private transportation services may speak directly to Bus Children at bus-sp@avenues.org.

Available routes:

Jardins
Itaim Bibi & Vila Olímpia
Moema & Vila Nova Conceição
Paraíso
Brooklin
Campo Belo
Morumbi (3 available routes)
Flexible and optional services: after school classes, clubs, medical appointments, birthday parties and more.

Note: New routes can be created according to demand.

Nutrition

Avenues is happy to partner with Sodexo to offer a balanced diet for our students and employees on campus. Our lunch menu, which is updated weekly on this page, offers fresh salad and fruit, as well as two options of animal protein, vegan options and a special version for restrictive diets to gluten and lactose. Students also enjoy morning and afternoon snacks with different fruits, carbohydrates and proteins.

Small World–Kindergarten: lunch is brought to the classroom in thermo-cookers.
1st–12th grade: students have lunch in Food every day
Food allergies: students who inform food allergies to our health office will be served the gluten-free and dairy-free options.
Vegan diets: students who inform vegetarian or vegan preferences to our health office will be served the vegan option.

We are a Green Kitchen school!
All vendors go through a rigorous selection process, and production is daily, using fresh ingredients and natural seasonings. Food samples are collected throughout the whole process for hygiene and quality control. In January 2023, our certification was renewed with the highest score among all certified schools!

If you have questions or comments about Lunch & Snacks, reach out to operations-sp@avenues.org

Communications

At Avenues, it is our goal to keep our families as well informed as possible while being mindful of the email-saturated culture in which we live. These are Avenues official communication channels and platforms:

Email: All families are automatically subscribed to receive cyclical communications including weekly bulletins, monthly messages from the head of school, and more.
Avenues OPEN: Here you will be able to access important information regarding the school, update your contact information and manage your communications preferences.
WhatsApp: Avenues uses WhatsApp to send read-only reminders to families, who can opt out if they wish to do so. Make sure to include a valid cellphone number to your Family Profile on Avenues OPEN to receive our messages.

Electives and Enrichment Courses

Secondary Division students have the exciting opportunity of exploring their personal interests during regular school hours.

Students joining grades 6-8 take part in Enrichment Courses designed to complement the student experience.

Students joining grades 9-12 enroll in Enrichment Courses and in a wide variety of Elective Courses, from data science to philosophy, business strategy, music theory and more.

Click below to review and indicate your preferences for Semester 2. We recommend students and parents take a moment to discuss the options as a family before submitting the form(s).

Extended Learning

Sign up for the 2023-24 programs
Many of the world’s greatest scientists, artists, athletes, and mathematicians got their start early, following their curiosity and passion beyond the formal school day.

Inspired by the lives of these changemakers, we have curated a selection of after-school learning experiences for our students. The range of classes engages students to explore their curiosity, excel in their passions, and just plain have fun.

Our classes are offered Monday through Friday. These classes provide an additional snack and supervision until 5:00 pm, in case your family requires it. To learn more about our programs and fees, please visit our webpage below. Registration for the next school year will open in early August.

Click here for more

School break program
You can still sign up your child entering nursery through 5th grade for our school break program that will happen in January: the NatureTech Camp! This camp is also offered to non-Avenues students—you are welcome to invite your child's friends to join.

Learn more and register

Keep exploring

If you have already completed your checklist and are eager to learn more before the start of the school year, click on the links below to explore various aspects of school life at Avenues.

Athletics

At Avenues, students can participate in athletic activities, have fun, experience the benefits of being physically active and enjoy being on a team or in a program. We understand the importance of lifelong health and fitness and incorporate healthy choices into their daily lives beyond Avenues.

Watch Athletics
Watch Volleyball Exchange
Follow the Athletics Instagram account

Flight Path

Flight Path is Avenues’ transformative tool for academic assessment developed to provide a holistic overview of a student’s growth over their entire school career. Flight Path was developed by the Avenues R&D team to help us better understand student growth over their entire journey at Avenues—as well as the possibilities for their future after graduation—and clearly communicate that understanding using evidence that we share. Flight Path is available for students in grades K–12 and is designed to help us assess and take timely, appropriate action to improve student growth when we see evidence that action is needed.

Flight path video

Community Engagement

We are committed to helping students get out of their bubbles, whether socio-economic, cultural, or linguistic. Not only because it’s the right thing to do but also because young people learn and grow in extraordinary ways when they do. From Small World to 12th grade, our community engagement, social innovation and mastery programs emphasize experiential learning that allows students to forge personal connections to individuals, organizations and causes beyond the campus walls. Through these connections, we inspire students to commit to the common good and foster a desire to make a difference in the world. These deep and sustained forms of engagement are crucial in our effort to cultivate the next generation of courageous, compassionate and enterprising global citizens.

Annual Report 2019–20

Annual Report 2020–21

Annual Report 2021–22

Annual Report 2022–23

Watch Brumadinho video

Watch Pracinha Initiative

Watch Festa Junina

Brazilian Program

Avenues is building a global network of interconnected campuses with shared educational objectives and common pedagogical approaches. But while our vision is ambitiously global, our focus is decidedly local. That means that at Avenues São Paulo, we take Brazilian educational standards as seriously as we do international ones. With an integrated curricular approach to instruction in Portuguese and English, our students attain a balanced mastery of both languages and reap the extensive cognitive benefits of bilingualism. All of the Brazilian national curricular components of Portuguese are included in our language curriculum at each grade level. We do not see English and Portuguese as belonging to separate silos but as two essential facets of an Avenues education.

Dean of Student Life Program and College Counseling

The College Counseling program at Avenues strives to provide individualized and supportive guidance for students navigating the college process. An Avenues Dean of Students is an advisor, a teacher, a listener and a primary support person. They work with students and parents, both individually and in groups, on educational, social and emotional development needs, life skills, and problem-solving. In the upper grades, students are assigned to a dean that will also provide college counseling support. We will expertly guide the entire college process, leading to students wisely choosing desirable, selective post-secondary pursuits where they will thrive. We will ensure that students and families feel well-informed and prepared for the college process. Also, we will anchor the college process in powerful relationships with students and their families.

Avenues São Paulo Class of 2023 College List

Watch Graduation 2023

Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI)

An integral part of the Avenues mission is to graduate students who are at ease beyond their borders. We often think of borders from a geographical lens. Still, they can be viewed by race, social-economic status, physical ability, language, etc. With the spirit of empathy and authentic listening, our students will develop the cultural competencies to connect across these borders, respect and celebrate differences. Aligned with our commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), we work to nurture a school culture where each person is trusted, valued and appreciated in our community for the diverse identities they represent. The DEI strategy is anchored by five key pillars: attract mission-aligned families, achieve operational excellence, develop an inclusive curriculum, develop our staff and use empowering language in our DEI conversations. At Avenues São Paulo, we have the DEI Institutional Team and DEI Academic Team, leading decision-making strategies to ensure that we are growing towards an expanding diverse community of students, parents, faculty and staff.

Watch Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Message

Performing Arts

The cornerstone of the music program is performance. We strive to provide our student musicians with real-life learning opportunities within and outside the school community. By studying instrumental and vocal techniques, performing skills, percussion, and a great variety of music genres, we prepare students for public performances and music appreciation.

Watch Jazz Night
Watch Stand by Me