Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias, Agualva - Cacém, Portugal
The Ferreira Dias Secondary School, Agualva-Sintra (ESFD), built in 1960,is part of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Sintra Municipality, Parish of Agualva Mira Sintra.
The School operates on both day and night schedules, with a diverse curriculum offering, allowing students with different ages, profiles and expectations towards the School, find in it a place of full integration.
Currently, the school has students from 39 different nationalities from 5 continents.
The school has students in the third cycle of basic education and in secondary education making a total arround 2 000 students.
The students of the secondary education are mainly in the Scientific-Humanistic areas (Sciences and Technologies, Visual Arts, Languages and Humanities and Socio-Economic Sciences), with more expression in the area of Sciences and Technologies.
It has also been a strategic bet of the School to offer Level 4 VET Courses, for completion of secondary education and focused on the integration of young people into the labor market, counting today with 19 (nineteen) classes, which corresponds to a percentage of about 30% of the classes of daytime secondary education.
In fulfilling its mission, "Promoting Educational Success in a School of Quality", ESFD associates appropriate learning methodologies that promote the development of skills who enable the learners towards the moral and social values that drive them and raise awareness of the importance of sustainable growth and peace (EU 2020 priority objectives).