Brazilian high school transcript translation

Who asks for the ensino médio record

US high schools placing a transferring teenager, community colleges and universities admitting a freshman, GED programs verifying prior schooling, and credential evaluators establishing graduation. Each of them reads the same document: the histórico plus, ideally, the certificado de conclusão.

What the translation preserves

The série and ano structure, every subject with its grade and workload, the school's grading scale exactly as printed, transfer annotations, and the signatures and stamps. Grades are never converted to a US scale; the receiving office does its own equivalence, from a faithful rendering.

Conclusão certificate rides along

The certificado de conclusão do ensino médio is the graduation proof admissions offices pair with the transcript. Send both in one order and they come back consistent, at the same $19 a page. University-level records live on the academic transcript page.

What each column means

Each column on a histórico escolar holds one kind of number. Disciplina names the subject and carga horária gives its class time; when the sheet says h/a, those are horas-aula, class periods, and they stay class periods in English. Nota is a single grade and média is an average of several. Frequência is attendance, usually as a percentage, and faltas counts absences. A 92 under frequência means 92 percent attendance, not a grade of 92. Every number stays under its own heading, so none of them changes meaning on the way into English.

EJA and supletivo records

EJA stands for Educação de Jovens e Adultos, the track for people who finish school after the usual age. Supletivo is the older name for the same route, and it still turns up on records from past decades. These sheets often skip the familiar three séries and count study in etapas, módulos or semestres instead, and some students finished by exam rather than by classes. We keep the layout exactly as printed, so an etapa reads as a stage of study, and a record earned by exam still says so in English.

What the back of the sheet carries

The verso, the back, is where many schools put the paperwork around the grades: the observações, the act that authorizes the school, and the signatures of the diretor and the secretário escolar, often with a number under each name. A número de registro there points to an entry in a register, never to a grade. Some sheets carry a stamp from the state education office. A note on the back can explain a line on the front. If the verso has any writing or stamp, photograph it and send it. If it is blank, skip it.

The person doing your translation is Ivy, a native Portuguese speaker from Brazil. She signs the Certificate of Accuracy on every order, which is the certification 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires.