Collegio Vescovile Pio X is a Catholic paritaria school in Treviso operating since 1920, from the Sezione Primavera for two-year-olds to the final year of upper school. It has a scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria, scuola media, four upper-school tracks - Liceo Classico, Liceo Scientifico (including applied sciences), Liceo Linguistico Europeo and the ITE AFM technical institute - and Pio X International: a four-year upper school entirely in English, with Cambridge IGCSE in the first two years and the IB Diploma Programme in the last two; the IB diploma is recognised as equivalent to the Italian maturità. English is strengthened from kindergarten: primary and middle school have English Plus tracks with subjects in English, and the middle school has a bilingual English Premium++ track with 16 hours of English a week. An in-house psychology and pedagogy service works within the school.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French, German, Latin
Class size
In primary no more than 20-22 pupils per class, in the two-year-old group no more than 10 pupils
Admissions To apply, families submit an expression of interest on the website for the relevant school year; the school then sends the programme description, fees and enrolment procedure. Open days are held for each stage (in autumn for 2027-2028), and families can request an interview; for mid-year entry there is an introductory meeting. Pio X International has selective admission for motivated students aged 14-18. The website says nothing about conditions for foreign students.
Stages and year groups Italian curriculum: scuola dell'infanzia; scuola primaria (English Plus&Tech and MUSA tracks); scuola media with four tracks - Attiv@mente, MUSA, English Plus+ (three subjects in English via CLIL) and English Premium++ (16 hours a week in English, six subjects via CLIL); upper school - Liceo Classico (including a biomedical option), Liceo Scientifico (including applied sciences), Liceo Linguistico Europeo (three tracks), ITE AFM, all ending with the esame di Stato. Pio X International: four years in English, years 1-2 Cambridge IGCSE with external exams (English Language & Literature, French/German/Spanish, International/Additional Mathematics, Coordinated Science, History, Economics, Global Perspectives, Computer Science), years 3-4 IB Diploma Programme (six subjects, TOK, Extended Essay, CAS), plus Italian and Religious Studies; the IB diploma is recognised as equivalent to the Italian maturità. In the Liceo Linguistico some non-language subjects are taught in English through Cambridge IGCSE courses; in middle school the Premium++ track sits Cambridge Checkpoint in English and science; in primary pupils take Cambridge YLE language exams.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeCambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE. Pio X International runs IGCSE in a wide range of subjects in English in years 1-2 and the IB Diploma in years 3-4; the languages liceo uses IGCSE courses and the middle school sits Checkpoint.
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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
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.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Afternoon Music Courses · Theatre · English Language Courses · Basketball · Volleyball · Martial Arts · Artistic Gymnastics · Instrument Lessons with the Diocesan Music Institute · Informatics Olympiad · CERN Beamline for Schools
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
In scuola dell'infanzia class teachers work with specialists (native English speakers, music, psychomotor skills); in primary class teachers work alongside subject specialists. The school names the three psychologists of its psychology and pedagogy service but does not name 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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The in-house psychology and pedagogy service (three psychologist-psychotherapists) advises students, families and teachers and works with ULSS. The civic education course includes legality topics with the postal police and health; the school has a whistleblower protection procedure.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)84 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median95 "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 7 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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Treviso, Italy · est. 1920 · Private