Our Lady of Mercy School is a Catholic American School whose mission is to enable each student to achieve their full potential by providing an outstanding education in a supportive and safe learning environment.

The school provides a caring and friendly, although demanding, learning environment and makes every effort to ensure that each individual has the opportunity to develop their particular talents to the full. The emphasis on academic achievement is balanced by our concern to meet our students’ physical, emotional and social needs and to ensure that they are prepared for active and well balanced citizenship. Personal development and social responsibility are an integral part of our educational programme. The highest value is placed on good social behaviour and moral standards in which respect for the individual and the environment are paramount. We want our students to be happy in school and we hope that their school experience will be fondly and warmly remembered for life. We believe that this can be achieved through providing high expectations, clear guidelines and limits, offering constant encouragement, attending to individual needs and providing opportunities for our students to participate in a wide variety of enjoyable activities – social, sporting and cultural.

We are a bilingual, international school with 55 years of tradition promoting cultural exchange between Brazil and Germany.

Rio International School is intentionally international, deliberately Christian, and purposely academic.