Escola Eleva São Paulo


Rua José Antônio Coelho, 819 Vila Mariana, Brazil

Kindergarten 3 (3-yeras-old) to 9th grade  (13-years-old) | 10th grade in 2026

With great excitement, we announce that in 2024 we inaugurated Eleva School in São Paulo. The Escola Eleva São Paulo campus is located in the traditional neighborhood of Vila Mariana, in an iconic building that once housed the Institute of Fine Arts. The school's spaces were developed to stimulate creativity, autonomy and the pleasure of learning, with an architectural design by the renowned firm Miguel Pinto Guimarães and interiors by the Danish firm Rosan Bosch, a world reference in architecture for education.

We start by welcoming children from kindergarten to 8th grade (3 to 13 years old), opening up the other grades every year until the last year of high school.

A Word from the Director of Eleva São Paulo

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Lucy is In her thirtieth year of a dynamic career as an educational leader within renowned international schools such as Chapel. She is passionate about supporting students through educational excellence and a firm advocate for research based teaching and learning practices that foster student well being, world citizenry, critical thinking and innovation. She speaks three languages and is proud of a diverse cultural background, having been born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and grown up in California, USA. 

Lucy is currently the Founding Head of Escola Eleva São Paulo, Brasil, part of the Inspired Global Education group of premium schools. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development from California State Fullerton, a Master's Degree in Educational leadership as well as a Principal's license from The College of New Jersey. A lifelong learner, some professional development highlights are the Women in Educational Leadership symposium in Princeton, New Jersey and The Klingenstein Heads of Independent Schools Program at Columbia University in New York.

 

— LUCY NUNES, HEAD OF ESCOLA ELEVA, SÃO PAULO

 

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Our school campus will cover an area of 10,000 m2 with exceptional spaces including: an exclusive area for early childhood education; maker space and laboratories; music rooms with recording studio; arts terrace; Outdoor BioLab; STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) dance room; sports room; multi-sports court; in addition to several common areas that inspire learning, curiosity and fun.

Full-time and bilingual (Portuguese-English), the education offered in the new unit will initially range from pre-school to the seventh year of Elementary School – with gradual expansion, year by year, until the end of High School.

Escola Eleva is part of the Inspired Group, which practices academic excellence in 24 countries, with more than 80,000 students, respecting teaching traditions and student individuality, always valuing innovation and global citizenship.

 

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Our Legacy


Eleva combines innovative teaching with proven results and progression to the best Universities in Brazil and the world, with socio-emotional development, resulting in a balance between hard skills (technical knowledge) and soft skills (behavioural skills, increasingly most valued in the job market).

Most activities are carried out in groups, another strategy for developing soft skills. Many study topics generate oral presentations from students, reinforcing one of the pillars developed at Eleva – oratory skills. “Our students will certainly need to speak in public throughout their lives. That’s why we consider this practice to be very important and should be improved organically, on a daily basis”, Lucy Nunes

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