SOMOS EDUCAÇÃO S.A. CNPJ/MF nº 02.541.982/0001-54 NIRE 35.300.175.832

Publicly-held Company

MATERIAL FACT

SOMOS Educação S.A. ("Company"), in accordance with the provisions of Law 6,404, enacted on December 15, 1976, and the sole paragraph of Article 6 of CVM Instruction 358, enacted on January 3, 2002, informs its shareholders and the market in general that (a) it has identified potentially illegal isolated practices by a few employees under the National Textbook Program (Programa Nacional do Livro Didático), specific in certain municipalities of the states of Alagoas and Pará; (b) according to the Company's Code of Conduct and compliance rules, such individuals were preventive and immediately released from their duties; (c) in its internal scope, the Company carried out the appropriate investigations and did not find any other inconsistency; and

(d) the Company proactively sought the Ministry of Transparency, Supervision and Comptroller General of the Union to report these facts and cooperate with any investigative actions undertaken by the authorities. We do not anticipate that these facts could bring any relevant adverse financial impact to the Company.

The Company is not part of any proceeding that could lead to a declaration of unsuitability or any other penalty.

São Paulo - October 14, 2016.

Daniel Cordeiro Amaral

Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer

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