Colégio de Aplicação da UFRJ
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| CAp UFRJ Colégio de Aplicação da UFRJ |
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| Established | May 20th, 1948 |
| Type | Primary to Secondary Public School |
| Affiliation | UFRJ |
| Principal | Celina Maria de Souza Costa |
| Faculty | c. 120 (80 efective and 40 temporary) |
| Students | c. 760 (510 in the morning shift and 250 in the afternoon shift) |
| Grades | Alphabetization Class to 3rd grade of Ensino Médio (Ages 6 - 17) |
| Location | Rua J.J. Seabra, s/n Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colours | White and Green |
| Emblem | UFRJ's logo decipting Minerva |
| Newspaper | A Forja and Perspectiva CApiana |
| National Ranking | 6th (2nd among public schools) |
| Website | http://www.cap.ufrj.br |
The Colégio de Aplicação da UFRJ (English: Laboratory School of UFRJ), also known as CAp UFRJ, is a public federal school maintained by UFRJ, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Being a laboratory school, it also serves as a training ground for future teachers graduating on UFRJ.
Despite the deterioration of Brazilian public teaching, CAp remains as one of the few good government-sustained schools, being normally ranked among the top five of Brazil, including the private ones.
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[edit] History
Founded in May 20th, 1948, the school was located in a building by the beach of Botafogo, yielded by Fundação Getulio Vargas. From 1952 to 1962 the school remained in another building in São Salvador square granted by the state government, and in 1962 it was transfered to its current location.
CAp is located on J.J. Seabra street, on the neighbourhood of Lagoa, South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The building it occupies today is not federal - it belongs to the state government, and was landmarked by the city mayor for being one of the few horizontal constructions on Lagoa. It is in a rather bad condition, but the lack of government funding and these special conditions have contributed to making it quite difficult to have any effective restorations.
On May 2005, a wall collapsed on one of the classrooms, as a result of an infiltration on the walls. It was a holiday, so the school was empty and no one was hurt. This triggered a rise on funds available for restorations on 2006, but some projects had to be delayed because of problems on the structure of the building.
There are still several problems regarding space, infra-structure and resources, however the quality of the teachers overcomes this issue and results in the majority of graduated students being accepted in highly concurred universities.
There is a permanent request from the student body regarding giving CAp a building of its own. Most people suggest it could be located inside the UFRJ campus at Urca, but unfortunately this is not a priority for the federal government as it would demand too many resources.
[edit] Relations with university
"Colégio de Aplicação", literally "Application School", means that the school is used as a training or research grounds (application of theory) for UFRJ student-teachers in the most diverse areas.
Students of CAp UFRJ may engage in research projects at UFRJ through NICJr. ("Núcleo de Iniciação Científica Jr.", English: "Junior Scientific Initiation Nucleus").
[edit] Students
As of 2007, classes on CAp are available from Classe de Alfabetização (Alphabetization class) to the 3rd grade of Ensino Médio, which is roughly equivalent of Grades 1 to 12. Students from the first five years have classes on the afternoon, and the rest in the morning, the only exception being the final year, in which there are classes on the afternoon in addition to the morning ones.
There are admission draws on C.A. (1st grade), in which 50 students enter the school, being divided in 2 classes of 25, on the 5th grade of Ensino Fundamental (6th grade), with 10 vacancies, dividing students in two classes of 30 each, and on the 1st grade of Ensino Médio (9th grade), when 30 more students join the school, making it three classes of 30 students.
This makes for a total of 760 students - 510 on the morning shift and 250 on the afternoon shift - not counting those who fail or who join the school in special conditions, such as being transfered from another laboratory school.
Students are allowed one failure on the first nine years and one more on the last three. Any addicional failures make the student be instantly expelled from the school.
[edit] Notable alumni
Many notorious people studied there, e.g. some of the Cassetas, famous Brazilian humourists, Miguel Paiva, cartoonist, Bel Kutner, actress and Paulo Henrique Amorim, journalist.
