Colégio Bandeirantes de São Paulo

Colégio Bandeirantes is a private secondary school located in São Paulo, opened in 1934. The school has students from many parts of the city and also from different states of Brazil.

It is a co-educational, privately funded institution which offers middle school and senior high programs to 2,770 students.

As a very competitive school, the students are ranked and placed in different classrooms according to the final average grade of the previous year. The students are college-oriented and regarded as high achievers, helping to build the school's fame and to keep up its standards.

During Junior and Senior years, the students are divided between three areas of study: Biological Sciences, Mathematical Sciences and Humanities. The Humanities course was added to the school's portfolio during the 1990s and was elaborated by thinker and journalist Gilberto Dimenstein.

Bandeirantes' president director, Mauro de Salles Aguiar, also participates in the advisory council of São Paulo's Harvard office.

Bandeirantes has a high acceptance level among top American and European universities, students have been sent to Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Columbia, Oxford, IMI, MIT and others. The school is one of the SAT's test centers in São Paulo.

Bandeirantes offers an extra curricular program to their Junior year students called Open City in association with Harvard University and the MIT in which the alumni create a year-long project with the goal of making life for citizens in São Paulo better.

For Sophomore students there is the option of enrolling in to MONU-EM, which translates as the United Nations Model for High-School Students. During one semester the political events of great importance of modern times are discussed and there are many simulations of debate sessions between UN diplomats. At the course' end, there is a final simulation of 4 hours that is transmitted in real time via internet.

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