Emei Maria Marques Fernandes

What Emei Maria Marques Fernandes does

Emei Maria Marques Fernandes is a municipal early childhood education school (Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil — EMEI) within the Rede Municipal de Ensino of Porto Alegre, Brazil, operated under the Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Porto Alegre (SMED). SMED, founded in 1955, is the statutory municipal authority responsible for designing, implementing, and coordinating public education policy across Porto Alegre. The network serves more than 60,000 students spanning Early Childhood Education (Educação Infantil, for children aged 4 months to 5 years 11 months) and Elementary Education (Ensino Fundamental), delivered through directly operated municipal schools (EMEIs and EMEFs) and partner schools (Escolas Parceiras).

The service portfolio includes free public education, school meals (Alimentação Escolar), special and inclusive education (Educação Especial e Inclusiva), centralized enrollment management via the Central de Vagas da Educação Infantil, and teacher professional development through the Escola de Formação Continuada da Educação delivered on the EducaPOA digital platform. Specialized pedagogical programs include Alfabetiza+POA (literacy), Incluir+POA (inclusion), and RecomPOA (academic recovery). Headquartered at Rua Riachuelo, nº 1257, Centro Histórico, Porto Alegre, the secretariat also operates a training academy and enrollment center at Rua João Manoel, nº 90.

As a municipal government department, SMED does not generate commercial revenue. It is funded through public budget allocations from the Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, sourced from municipal tax revenue and federal education transfers (notably FUNDEB). Services are provided free of charge to enrolled students and families. The entity is undergoing governance modernization, evidenced by the 2025 Organograma (Decreto 23.163/2025) and Regimento Interno (Decreto 23.286/2025), and has entered a PPP (Escola Bem-Cuidada) for school infrastructure maintenance formalized in July 2026.

Name

Emei Maria Marques Fernandes

Legal name

Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Porto Alegre

Website

https://websmed.portoalegre.rs.gov.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Emei Maria Marques Fernandes is a municipal early childhood education school within Porto Alegre's public Rede Municipal de Ensino, operated by SMED. It serves children aged 4 months to under 6 years as part of a network delivering free public education to over 60,000 students.

Ownership category

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Product category

Public Education Services

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111), Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Elementary Schools (EDAJAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

General Preschools (Play-Based) (EDACABAA), Nursery School Programs (2–4 Years) (EDACACAB), Special Needs-Inclusive Early Learning Academies (EDACADAI)

Keywords

• Public education services
• Municipal early childhood education
• Inclusive special education
• School meals program
• Teacher professional development

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto Alegre

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Education Funding: As a municipal government department, SMED is funded through public budget allocations from the Porto Alegre municipal government. Revenue is not commercially generated; it is appropriated through municipal tax revenue and federal education transfers (e.g., FUNDEB) allocated to the municipality for public education services.

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SMED operates the municipal education network of Porto Alegre, providing free Early Childhood Education (Educação Infantil) for children aged 4 months to 5 years 11 months, Elementary Education (Ensino Fundamental), Special and Inclusive Education, and school meals across municipal and partner schools. The department also delivers centralized enrollment through Central de Vagas and continuing professional development for its staff via the Escola de Formação Continuada and EducaPOA platform.

Product overview

The Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Porto Alegre (SMED) operates as a municipal government education department offering a unified portfolio of educational services rather than a commercial product platform. Its core services include Childhood Education (Educação Infantil), School Meals (Alimentação Escolar), Special and Inclusive Education, and Continuing Teacher Training via the EducaPOA digital platform. SMED also runs various pedagogical programs including Alfabetiza+POA (literacy), Incluir+POA (inclusion), RecomPOA (academic recovery), and manages the Central de Vagas for enrollment management. The department serves over 60,000 students across the Municipal Education Network, comprising Municipal Early Childhood Schools (EMEIs), Municipal Elementary and Secondary Schools, and Partner Schools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Educação Infantil (Early Childhood Education)

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Curitiba: Municipal education secretariat of Curitiba, historically recognized for educational innovation in Brazil. Operates a similar municipal K–ECE network and is often benchmarked alongside SMED.
• Secretaria Municipal de Educação de São Paulo (SME-SP): Municipal education secretariat of São Paulo, the largest in Brazil. Directly comparable as a municipal government body operating the public K–12 and early childhood network of a major Brazilian capital, with similar statutory monopoly and portfolio of services.
• Secretaria Municipal de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (SME-Rio): Municipal education secretariat of Rio de Janeiro. Closely comparable to SMED in operating the municipal early childhood and elementary network, managing centralized enrollment, and serving a large urban student population in Brazil.
• Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte: Municipal education secretariat of Belo Horizonte, another major Brazilian capital with a comparable municipal network of EMEIs and EMEFs and a strong reputation for pedagogical innovation programs.

Others

• Fundação Lemann: Major Brazilian education-focused foundation investing in public school improvement and partnerships with municipal secretariats. Comparable as a third-party operator that works alongside SMED to deliver programs in the public network.
• Instituto Unibanco: Brazilian education-focused foundation that partners with state and municipal education secretariats on management, governance, and learning programs. Comparable as an ecosystem participant that interfaces with SMED-type entities.

Broad incumbents

• Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Rio Grande do Sul (SEDUC-RS): State-level education authority governing public K–12 across Rio Grande do Sul. Comparable in mission and governance type but operates at state rather than municipal level, with overlapping jurisdictions on statewide policy.

Regional players

• Secretaria de Educação do Distrito Federal: Education secretariat of the Federal District. Operates a public K–ECE network in a different geographic jurisdiction (Brasília region) but shares the same municipal/state-secretariat operating model as SMED.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Prefeitura_POA
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@prefpoaoficial
• Facebookfacebook.com/prefpoa
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/emei-maria-marques-fernandes
• Instagraminstagram.com/educacaopoa
• TikToktiktok.com/@prefpoa

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