Escola Estadual Barão do Rio Branco, Public school and heritage site in Funcionários district, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Escola Estadual Barão do Rio Branco is a public school located in the Funcionários neighborhood of Belo Horizonte that holds heritage protection status. The building features a main structure with an elevated basement that follows the street's topography, and displays the Minas Gerais state coat of arms prominently on its central pediment.

Construction of this educational facility began in 1911 and was completed in 1913, with official operations commencing in 1914 under architect Jayme Salse's design. The building received heritage protection status through state decree in 1988 and is now registered in Minas Gerais' official heritage records.

The school is named after Barão do Rio Branco, the diplomat who led Brazil's foreign ministry from 1902 to 1912. Its alumni include Frei Betto, the friar and writer, the fashion designer Zuzu Angel, the writer Paulo Mendes Campos and four mayors or governors of Minas Gerais, among them Israel Pinheiro.

The school occupies a 4,600-square-metre site on Avenida Getúlio Vargas in the Funcionários neighbourhood, with morning, afternoon and evening shifts serving over a thousand students daily. Its grounds hold a vegetable garden, a garden, a sports court, a library, two computer labs and two science labs. The 2018 restoration added anti-graffiti paint to the facade.

The 2018 restoration repainted the facade in yellow, caramel and white and applied anti-graffiti paint. In 2019 vandals destroyed all twelve outdoor lamps, prompting mayor Alexandre Kalil to have the Municipal Guard monitor the building. Among its former students are writer Frei Betto, stylist Zuzu Angel and Israel Pinheiro, governor of Minas Gerais from 1966 to 1971.