New York-Bred, Private Equity-Backed School Shakes Up Brazil

Students compete in a chess tournament at Avenues, a private school in New York.

Photographer: Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times via Redux

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A New York import is set to shake up the elite segment of the Sao Paulo education scene. And your city may be next.

Avenues, a private-equity backed international school headquartered in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, is opening a campus in Latin America’s financial capital in August after several years of planning, its first expansion outside New York. It’s the first of several international locations that the K-12 school plans to open.