← Back to the rankingAlexandria International School
Alessandria, Italy · est. 1973 · Private
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Alexandria International School is a private bilingual school in Alessandria (Piedmont) with Italian paritaria status, from nursery at 6 months to liceo, up to age 19. Its history began in 1973 with the Centro Studi Alexandria, a tutoring centre offering private preparation and recovery of school years; a nursery opened in 1999, followed by a pre-school and primary school. The pre-school became paritaria in 2001, the primary in 2003 and the middle school in 2006; a liceo scientifico opened in 2009 and a liceo delle scienze umane with a social-economic option in 2016. Since 2019 the liceo scientifico has operated as a Liceo Scientifico Cambridge International, and in 2025 Cambridge Lower Secondary was introduced in the middle school. Teaching follows the Italian state curriculum in Italian, with enhanced English: the primary school has 6 hours of English per week and several subjects in English, the middle school teaches science, English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives in English under the Cambridge programme, and the liceo scientifico prepares for IGCSE exams. Students take the state exam at the end of middle school and the maturità. Students are of various nationalities: Italian, Chinese, Indian, Albanian, Romanian, Moroccan, French and South American.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 649–7 682 a year
5 000–6 800 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · National programme
Admits from
6 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French, Latin
Registration fee
≈ $621
550 EUR
About the fees Fees for the 2026-2027 school year, per year: nursery 5000 EUR with pick-up at 13:30 and 6800 EUR at 18:30; sezione primavera and pre-school 5590 EUR until 16:30 and 6435 EUR until 18:30; primary and middle school 5590 EUR; Cambridge liceo scientifico 5910 EUR; liceo delle scienze umane 5590 EUR in years 1-4 and 5910 EUR in year 5. Fees can be paid in 10 interest-free instalments (request by 31 July) or with a 5% discount in one payment by 31 July. There is a 10% discount for a second child and 15% for a third.
Admissions Admissions are open all year. Steps: contact the admissions office, a meeting and school tour, an optional trial day in class, completion of the form and signing of the contract with payment of the registration fee, submission of documents. The child's personal documents are required, and for transfers the nulla osta from the previous school. English is not required for entry: the school helps students catch up and offers individual support. The school welcomes students from abroad: school documents translated into Italian, a language profile form and, if needed, an entry test are required; the class council decides placement. Scholarships of 50 to 100% are available.
Stages and year groups Grades Asilo Nido, Sezione Primavera, Scuola dell'Infanzia, 1-5 primaria, 1-3 secondaria di I grado, 1-5 liceo. Asilo nido (6 months - 2 years), sezione primavera (2-3 years), scuola dell'infanzia (3-6 years), paritaria for the pre-school; scuola primaria paritaria (grades 1-5): 6 hours of English per week, science, computing and PE in English, some subjects taught 70 to 30 in Italian and English. Scuola secondaria di primo grado paritaria (grades 1-3): the Italian curriculum plus Cambridge Lower Secondary - Science, English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives in English; Spanish two hours per week; the state exam at the end. Liceo scientifico paritario with Cambridge International: the Italian liceo scientifico curriculum (Italian, Latin, English, mathematics, physics, philosophy, history, drawing and art history) plus IGCSE courses in English as a Second Language, Mathematics and Global Perspectives; 6 hours of English per week in the first two years and an international exam at the end of year two; maturità at the end. Liceo delle scienze umane, opzione economico-sociale, paritario: human sciences, law and economics, English and a second foreign language (French or Spanish), CLIL lessons in English; maturità at the end.
Address Via Don Luigi Orione 1, Alessandria
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · authorised programmeInternational Schools Partnership · school is part of the networkThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE. Middle school adds Cambridge Lower Secondary science, English and Global Perspectives; the science liceo prepares IGCSE English, maths and Global Perspectives on top of the Italian curriculum.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16). Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
International Schools Partnershipschool network
A group of private international schools, founded in 2013 by five leaders from international education. The numbers diverge: the home page gives 121 schools in 26 countries and "132,000+" pupils, the "About us" page - 106 schools in 25 countries, the "Who and where we are" page - 121 schools in more than 26 markets and 118,000 pupils. The site writes that schools keep their own character, brand and curriculum when they join ISP, but does not say whether ISP buys the schools, manages them under contract or brings them together by membership.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results The school publishes national INVALSI results for 2023-2024: in grade 2 of primary Italian 79.1% against an Italian average of 67.5%, mathematics 79.9% against 56.1%; in grade 5 Italian 84.5% against 58.1%, mathematics 81.9% against 57.6%, English reading 94.2% against 73%, listening 96.9% against 72.5%; in grade 3 of middle school Italian 199.3 against 194.5, mathematics 202.2 against 195.2, English reading 239.9 against 213.9, listening 245.2 against 214. The school does not publish IGCSE or maturità results.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Clubs and activities: Basketball · Volleyball · Gioco Sport (multi-sport for young children) · Theatre · Music · ISP Changemakers · ISP Artists · ISP Chess Masters · ISP Filmmakers · ISP Model United Nations · ISP Scientists · ISP Cultural Exchange · ISP Virtual Exchange
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
In July a summer school runs for children from 6 months to 5-6 years, full day from 7:30 to 18:00 or until 13:30, weekly, with activities in Italian and English, creative workshops, water games and music; it is also open to children from outside the school. For students aged 11 to 17 the school offers a two-week Claremont Summer School language trip to the UK with English lessons, sport, performing arts and excursions to London, Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Teachers are native English speakers and Italian teachers; the site presents the leadership and key teachers with degrees from Italian and foreign universities; the group says every teacher is certified in AI and EdTech.
The school has been led since 2023 by Head of School Emanuela Abbate; there are coordinators for English as an Additional Language, life competencies and international opportunities, and a university and careers counsellor. Native English teachers work at every stage alongside Italian teachers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a safeguarding policy and a team of two designated safeguarding leads. Staff are trained in safeguarding procedures, and the school expects all employees, consultants and suppliers to share this commitment. Principles: the child's welfare first, protection without discrimination, extra attention to children with special needs. An inclusion plan covers students with special educational needs; assistants ride on the buses.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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