Deledda International School (DIS) in Genova is a non-state IB school created on the initiative of the Municipality of Genova so that Italian families could obtain an international secondary diploma with legal value in Italy. The school has offered the Diploma Programme since its authorisation on 29 May 2001, later added the MYP, and opened its primary school in 2016; in 2025 the IB approved PYP authorisation, and the school calls itself an IB Continuum school with a 12-year programme. The primary school is paritaria: the Italian curriculum is combined with the PYP approach and reinforced English. Middle and upper school follow the MYP (from year 1 of middle school) and the Diploma Programme; in the DP Italian, English and mathematics are compulsory, and the diploma is recognised as equivalent to the Italian diploma. DP results are consistently above the world average.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 309–10 294 a year
7 355–9 112 EUR
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
English, Italian
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Chinese
Registration fee
≈ $56
50 EUR
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027, approved by the board in December 2025 (a 10% increase and a fixed 500 euro supplement for the DP): primary 7355 euros, MYP 8612 euros, DP1 and DP2 9112 euros per year, including the 2 euro stamp duty. 500 euros are paid on enrolment and the balance in four instalments by 30 September 2026, 15 January, 15 March and 30 April 2027. Families who first enrolled in 2016-2019 may pay on the ISEE scale; from the 2019-2020 intake only the full fee applies. The foundation allocates 30000 euros a year for scholarships for MYP and DP students with ISEE below 20000 euros.
Admissions Primary: online application through OpenApply with a 50 euro fee, a PYP orientation meeting in February, and the enrolment contract in March; children from non-state, non-paritaria primary schools enter classes 2-5 through an eligibility exam (application by 30 April, exams in June). Middle and upper school: students are admitted to any year from MYP1 to DP1, not to DP2. The same online application with a 50 euro fee is followed by an entrance test in March: for MYP1 a motivational interview, for MYP2-5 and DP1 written tests in Italian, English and mathematics (mathematics in Italian or English as chosen) and an interview. Admission follows the ranking within available places; the school may refuse students who have breached academic integrity rules. The school states that it admits motivated students from Italy and abroad; for applicants living abroad the test is held in separate sessions.
Stages and year groups Grades PYP 1-5, MYP 1-5, DP 1-2. IB PYP in primary (paritaria, Italian curriculum with reinforced English), IB MYP from year 1 of middle school (Year 6) to MYP5, IB Diploma Programme in the last two years. MYP: language and literature in Italian and English, language acquisition in English, Italian, Chinese, French, German and Spanish; at the end of the third MYP year students sit the Italian state exam of the first cycle. DP: six subjects (three higher and three standard level), TOK, Extended Essay, CAS; English A and Italian A, English B, Italian B, French B, German B, Spanish B, Mandarin ab initio; history, psychology, economics; biology, chemistry, physics, Environmental Systems and Societies; two mathematics courses; visual arts. Italian, English and mathematics are compulsory; course availability depends on enrolment.
Address Corso Mentana 27, 16128 Genova
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes.
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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. 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.
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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
Average IB score
31 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma: in 2026, 92% of candidates received the diploma, average score 31; in 2025, 95% and 31 (world 81% and 30); in 2024, 98% and 34 (world 80% and 30); in 2023, 100% and 33. The average mark of the school's students in the state exam at the end of middle school in 2026 was 8.5 out of 10.
Where leavers go: Cambridge University · University of Edinburgh · University of St Andrews · University of Warwick · King's College London · London School of Economics (LSE) · University College London (UCL) · Imperial College London · Politecnico di Milano · Politecnico di Torino · Bocconi University · LUISS (Luiss)
and others, 19 universities in the school's list in allThe school lists a sample of universities that have admitted or made offers to its graduates in Italy, the UK, Europe, the US and Canada, including medical schools; students usually apply to several UK universities and receive several offers. A college counselling service holds class meetings and one-to-one interviews.
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 transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school is on Corso Mentana in Genova. There is a canteen for primary and middle school: the menu is reviewed by a committee of parents and teachers together with the supplier CIRfood, and once a month an "international menu" with food from one country is served as part of a languages department project. In the Diploma Programme sciences include one hour of laboratory work per week; students take part in the European Olympiad of Experimental Sciences (EOES). It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Service as Action · CAS - Creativity, Activity, Service · EOES - European Olympiad of Experimental Sciences · Personal Project Exhibition · Eye Bank Charity Project
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 sizenot stated
The site presents the head of school and the DP, MYP and PYP coordinators with their education and experience: among them a former student of the school, a former neuroscience researcher, a chemist with a master's degree from Bologna and a teacher with experience in international schools in Mozambique, Congo, Greece and Austria. Primary teachers hold Italian primary teaching qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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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