← Back to the rankingConvitto Nazionale di Stato "Tommaso Campanella"
Reggio Calabria, Italy · est. 1564 · State
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The Convitto Nazionale di Stato "Tommaso Campanella" is a state school in the centre of Reggio Calabria, heir to a Jesuit college whose construction began in 1564. There is no boarding today: the school keeps the name convitto but offers only half-board, with lunch and afternoon activities with educators. Three stages share one building: scuola primaria (513 students), scuola secondaria di primo grado (404) and the licei (220): liceo classico d'ordinamento and liceo classico europeo with the Italian-French ESABAC double diploma, offered since 1995. Almost every stage has language-enriched tracks. Primary has International and International Plus tracks with a native English teacher and music and art lessons in French and Spanish. Middle school has a Cambridge track (English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives), an International track and a STEM track. The liceo has Cambridge tracks with IGCSE exams, an International track with German and Spanish and a STEM track. In the liceo classico europeo geography and history are taught in French, law and sciences in English by native speakers. The school hosts regional Cambridge teacher meetings.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $0–1 243 a year
0–1 100 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English, French
Languages taught
Spanish, German, Latin
About the fees Tuition at the state school is free. For 2026-2027 the school charges for half-board and language tracks. The liceo classico europeo, where half-board is compulsory, costs 1000 euros per year, the liceo classico europeo ESABAC Cambridge 1100 euros per year, in 4-5 instalments. The Cambridge track in the liceo classico d'ordinamento costs 350 euros per year, the International track 300 euros, the STEM track is free. Middle school: half-board 1200 euros per year, International and Cambridge tracks 300 euros each, STEM 200 euros. Primary: half-board 1200 euros per year, International 200 euros, International Plus 300 euros.
Admissions Admission follows the state procedure: applications are made only online through the Ministry's Piattaforma Unica (for 2026-2027 from 13 January to 14 February 2026), stating the chosen track. Children who turn 6 by 31 December must enrol in the first primary class; early enrolment is possible for those turning 6 by 30 April of the following year. The middle school Cambridge track requires a certified English level of at least A1 (Movers, at least 9 shields in total), otherwise the student is placed in the International track. The liceo Cambridge tracks (liceo classico d'ordinamento Cambridge and liceo classico europeo ESABAC Cambridge) require an international English certificate of at least A2 in all four skills; without it by the end of June the student is enrolled in the standard track. Tracks open with at least 15 students. Half-board requires a separate application to the head; when places are short, choosing half-board gives priority. The admission rules do not address foreign students separately.
Stages and year groups Scuola primaria: standard track (30 hours, reinforced English), International (4 hours of English with a native teacher from the first class), International Plus (plus music in French and art in Spanish using CLIL). Scuola secondaria di primo grado: standard track, International (33 hours, reinforced English, Cambridge English exams), Cambridge (33 hours: English as a Second Language 2 hours and Global Perspectives 1 hour per week with a native teacher; the first intake of the track also announced Art and Design in English from the second year), STEM. Liceo (Italian curriculum, esame di Stato): liceo classico d'ordinamento with Cambridge, STEM and International (German and Spanish) tracks; liceo classico europeo ESABAC (two diplomas, esame di Stato and baccalauréat) and liceo classico europeo ESABAC Cambridge. Cambridge in the liceo: in the d'ordinamento Cambridge track IGCSE Global Perspectives (exam at the end of class 2) and English as a Second Language (exam at the end of class 4), 2 hours per week each with native teachers; in ESABAC Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language and Business Studies, exam at the end of class 4. School teachers also teach IGCSE Latin in English.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE. A Cambridge track in middle school covers English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives; classical liceo tracks prepare IGCSE Global Perspectives, English and Business Studies for a fee.
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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.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: The school occupies the historic complex of the former Jesuit college in the very centre of Reggio Calabria, opposite the Castello Aragonese. According to the PTOF: computer, physics, language and music laboratories, a classics library, an assembly hall, two gyms and two courtyards, and a canteen. Every classroom has an interactive whiteboard and a computer, and there are mobile computer labs. There is no boarding today: the convitto keeps its name but works as a half-board (semiconvitto) with lunch in the canteen and afternoon study with educators until 17:00 or 17:30.
Clubs and activities: Painting Workshop · Film Club · Computer Science Workshop · Reading Workshop · Theatre Activities · Music Activities · School Newspaper · Interact
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
✓Number of teachers103
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Language tracks are taught by native English and French speakers; IGCSE subjects are taught by native English teachers with subject expertise.
According to the PTOF the school has 103 teachers and 52 technical and administrative staff; half-board is run by state educators, and in the liceo classico europeo an educator is assigned to each class as tutor.
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 policy
The school has a school psychologist (25 hours, a regional project for 2025-2028), a team and working group on preventing bullying and cyberbullying, and a cyberbullying coordinator. Educators supervise half-board students at lunch and during breaks.
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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 data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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.
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