[2] The school is operated by the Fundação Escola Portuguesa de Macau and receives partial funding from the Portuguese government.

The school occupies the former premises of the former Escola Comercial;[7] circa 1998 this campus, smaller and less expensive to maintain than the former Liceu de Macau,[8] only had enough space to house fewer than half of the students who wished to attend.

[9] Its administrators were scheduled to be from the local Macanese community,[7] replacing the previous Portuguese leadership at the former Liceu.

[4] Since its establishment the number of students had declined, attributed in part to the departure of many Portuguese families from Macau.

[1] In 2018 Valeria Koob, the president of the school's parent association, advocated for having outside-of-class expeditions for Mandarin Chinese classes.