Schools in Brazil 🇧🇷

170,433 schools indexed. Data sourced from national ministry / open data portals.

By school type

56,576
Municipal / Rural
48,790
Municipal / Urbana
39,895
Particular / Urbana
18,716
Estadual / Urbana
5,058
Estadual / Rural
865
Particular / Rural
465
Federal / Urbana
68
Federal / Rural

International assessments

How this country compares on the major international tests. Lower ranks are better. Scores are mean scale scores (OECD scale ≈ 500).

PISA Math 2022
379
65th / 81
OECD — 15-year-olds
PISA Reading 2022
410
51st / 81
OECD — 15-year-olds
PISA Science 2022
403
62nd / 81
OECD — 15-year-olds
PIRLS Reading (G4) 2021
419
47th / 56
IEA — Grade 4

Sources: OECD PISA 2022, IEA TIMSS 2019, IEA PIRLS 2021.

By estado

São Paulo31,188
Minas Gerais23,579
Bahia19,370
Maranhão13,314
Rio de Janeiro13,029
Pará11,801
Ceará10,020
Pernambuco9,822
Amazonas6,115
Piauí5,421
Paraíba5,239
Rio Grande do Norte4,758
Espírito Santo3,840
Alagoas3,405
Sergipe2,417
Tocantins2,182
Acre1,654
Rondônia1,375
Roraima956
Amapá948