How this table is made and where its facts come from

Where the facts come from

We read a place's own website and record what it offers children: ages, weekly times, prices with their period, languages, trial classes and whether an adult has to stay.

The address, the map point and the opening hours may also come from its Google Maps listing, and membership of a federation from the club list that federation publishes. A place with no website of its own may be listed from its Google listing alone, when the listing itself says it is for children; its page then gives only the address and opening hours.

Every fact is kept with the address of its page, the day it was read and a short quote in that page's words. Directories, news, booking platforms, social networks and reviews never count as a source.

Source marks

Three marks exist. Published by the place: its own website. Google listing: its Google Maps listing. Federation list: a sports federation's club list.

Each fact on a place's page carries its mark and date, so you can see who said it and how long ago.

When a fact is missing

When the pages we read leave a fact out, the place's page calls it not published and the table shows a dash. That speaks only of those pages, not of the place itself.

Nothing is guessed. A school year, such as the third year of ensino fundamental, never becomes an age. A price keeps the period the place gives, and the one sum we do is the per-class price marked ≈: the cost of a package or a whole course divided by its classes.

Dates, times and opening hours

Two columns hold time. Dates and times: the days and hours of a class, an afternoon of contraturno or a day of a colônia, as the place gives them, with the dates on a holiday camp. Opening hours: when the branch is open, often from its Google listing.

A branch can be open with no class for a given age at that hour. A row with opening hours alone goes below the line, under a heading that says why.

The pages for the hours outside school look at Monday to Friday between 13:00 and 18:00. School runs in shifts, and this is the free half of a child who studies in the morning, up to the hour many families collect. A class counts if one of its groups starts in that stretch; care counts if its hours cover all of it. A child who studies in the afternoon has the morning free, and the time filter finds those classes.

What we do not judge

Nobody gets a mark, a score or a rank: no place, no teacher, no coach.
No one from this site visits the places; every fact has a published source.
We give no view on how well anyone teaches, coaches or cares.
We cannot say whether a class has room; ask the place.
We do not check licences, insurance or the background of staff.
Prices stand as published, with period and date, unconfirmed by the place.

Right of reply

If you run a place on the list and a fact is wrong, incomplete or old, send the right one through the form with a link to the page that shows it.

When the place's own pages back it up, the fix goes into the next update and into the history of edits. A place that closes keeps its page, marked closed, and leaves every table.

You can also ask for a place you run to come off the list: choose “Remove a place from the list” in the form and leave a contact that shows you run it. Within a month the place, its page and its rows in the data files are gone.

Dates and updates

A place's sources are read again within 6 months of the last reading. A price for a period now over stays on the place's page with that period, but the filters and the summary line leave it out.

How it is paid for

A listing costs nothing, and no payment changes a row or where it sits in the table.

A place's page may carry a link to Zartrace, a service affiliated with this catalogue and labelled as one. Clicks on contact buttons are counted as totals, with no personal data.

Open data

You can download the whole catalogue as JSON, one record per place, or as CSV, one row per programme. Both hold the sources, marks and dates and state their licence.

Bairros, distance and the map

The areas are the bairros families name, across Zona Sul, Centro, Grande Tijuca, Zona Norte out to Madureira and the Ilha do Governador, Barra, Recreio and Jacarepaguá. The smallest go with the neighbour people would say: Leme with Copacabana, Cosme Velho with Laranjeiras, Lapa with Centro. A branch goes to the area whose boundary holds its point on the map; one further out, in Bangu or Campo Grande, stays filed there. Niterói is another city across the bay and is not covered.

Distance is a straight line from the point you choose to the nearest branch, rounded to the half kilometre. Your location is requested only when you press the button, and it stays in your browser.