The school in Manaus that prepares students for universities in Brazil and abroad

How does Ensino Médio at Palas Atena prepare students for the best universities?

Ensino Médio at Palas Atena prepares students for the best universities by joining a solid base to a clear focus: the ENEM, entrance exams and international applications, with support for each student to build their own life plan.

This is the moment when everything built turns into a future. Ensino Médio at Palas Atena is not bilingual, and that is a deliberate choice: rather than spread thin, it concentrates on what decides a student’s destination at this stage, preparation for the most competitive universities in Brazil and in the world.

But they do not start from nothing. Every student arrives here with a complete bilingual base, built from Educação Infantil through 9th grade. That fluent English, now a tool, is what opens the door to international applications and puts the world, genuinely, within your family’s reach.

Ensino Médio students preparing for university — Preparing for university

Focused on the ENEM and entrance exams

Steady, deep preparation for the exams that open the doors of the most competitive universities in the country.

Doors to studying abroad

Guidance on international applications and universities outside Brazil, supported by the fluent English built through 9th grade.

A plan for life

Every student is supported in working out what they want from life and mapping the road there, with deliberate, mature choices.

Maturity and independence

More than passing an exam, students learn to organize themselves, to decide and to take responsibility as young adults.

The base that makes the difference

The fluent English built through 9th grade stops being a subject and becomes a competitive advantage when going after a place anywhere in the world.

Range for the world

Beyond the content, students build critical judgment, cultural range and argument, which count in essays, in interviews and in life.

Study tables and carrels in the Palas Atena library

Is Ensino Médio bilingual?

Ensino Médio at Palas Atena is not bilingual: it leans on the bilingual base built from Educação Infantil through 9th grade and turns it into a strategic advantage in preparing for university.

Here is our greatest strength, and we would rather be straight about it. The bilingual program at Palas runs through 9th grade, covering the whole stage when a child learns languages best. By the time they reach Ensino Médio, students are already fluent, and that fluency is not lost: it becomes an instrument.

While many are still trying to learn English in high school, Palas students already command it and can put all their energy into what actually decides the future. It is that combination, an international base plus total focus on preparation, that makes Palas the steady path to seeing your child at a well-known university, in Brazil or abroad.

Every student who arrives gets an Aluno Shadow, a buddy: a classmate who stays alongside them while they settle in, shows them the routine and the school, and sticks around until the new student feels at home. Arriving midway stops meaning starting alone.

Palas Atena defines itself as a high-performance school, and what holds the term up is not the talk: it is the olympiad teams that prepare students for academic olympiads, and the university places won in Brazil and abroad. Results matter. So does the road to them.

In 2025, four Ensino Médio students spent a month at summer camp in Denmark.

Portal da Floresta, report on bilingual education at Palas Atena

Is Ensino Médio at Palas Atena bilingual?

No. The bilingual program at Palas Atena runs from Educação Infantil through 9th grade. Ensino Médio leans on that settled base and focuses on preparing for the ENEM, university entrance exams and international applications. The student’s fluent English becomes a strategic tool, not another subject.

How does the school prepare students for universities abroad?

Palas Atena prepares students for universities abroad in two ways: through the English fluency built by 9th grade, and through dedicated guidance on international applications. Students reach the application stage with the language mastered and the range needed to compete for places at institutions outside Brazil.

How does Palas Atena prepare students for the ENEM and entrance exams?

With a preparation track that runs across all three years: intensive combined sessions, mock exams, reviews, parallel catch-up work and varied practice. The Writing Lab has students writing every week, focused on the genres the exams ask for. Extra sessions run on Saturdays, and are required for anyone called in. The mock exams start earlier, in 9th grade, so the shift in demands catches nobody by surprise.

What is the life plan in Ensino Médio?

The life plan is the support that helps each student work out what they want from the future and map the road there. More than choosing a course, students mature, set goals and make deliberate choices, arriving at the entrance exams clear about where they are headed.