← Back to the rankingEscuela Paritaria Castelfranco
Córdoba, Argentina · est. 1988 · Private
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Escuela Paritaria Castelfranco is an Italian-Argentine school in the Villa Belgrano district in the north of Córdoba. It was founded in 1988 by a young kindergarten teacher, Adriana Venturi, as a kindergarten; in 1989 the family built the primary school and named it after Castelfranco, the home town of the founder's father, and in 1990 a secondary school opened. In 2004 the school passed out of the founders' ownership and joined the bilingual bicultural schools project of the Italian Consulate General in Córdoba; the scuola media opened in 2008, and in 2023 the school gained Italian parity. Primary school and scuola secondaria di primo grado are now paritaria: pupils follow the Córdoba provincial and Italian curricula at the same time with Spanish and Italian teachers and sit the Italian esame di Stato at the end of the third year of media. Since 2024 the third year of Argentine secondary school has been combined with the first year of the liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale, for which parity has been requested. English is taught from age 4 with Cambridge exams in view; leavers travel to Italy and London.
Key facts
Programmes
Italian programme · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, Spanish
Admissions For kindergarten: families fill in the website form, an information meeting in May or June presents the school and the cost of schooling; families then submit a pre-registration request and pay a place reservation, in the second half of the year the heads hold a personal interview and collect documents, and enrolment is completed on payment of the enrolment fee. Under provincial rules, siblings of current pupils have priority. For primary and secondary school, families write to the head of the level and book an interview. Kindergarten entry is from the 3-year group.
Stages and year groups Kindergarten (groups for ages 3, 4 and 5; Italian parity does not cover it), primary school (grades 1-6 in the Argentine scheme, grades 1-5 and the first year of media in the Italian one) and secondary school years 1-6. The scuola primaria and scuola secondaria di primo grado are paritaria: at the end of year 2 of Argentine secondary school (terza media) pupils sit the first-cycle esame di Stato and receive the Italian diploma with a competence certificate. Since the 2023-2024 austral year, years 3-6 have been combined with the liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale, for which a parity application was filed on 31 March 2024; the second-cycle esame di Stato and Italian liceo diploma are not yet issued. The Argentine qualification is a Bachiller with an Economics and Administration orientation (Communication for the 2024 and 2025 classes). Italian is certified through PLIDA at the end of primary and CILS in year 6, English through Cambridge YLE, PET, FCE or Linguaskill.
Address Lasalle esq. Avogadro, barrio Villa Belgrano, Córdoba
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
MAECIItaly's foreign ministry names the school on its list of paritarie Italian schools abroad: it teaches the Italian curriculum, and Italy recognises its exams and diploma on a par with state schools. Italy has recognised parity for the primary school and the scuola media; the liceo has run since 2024 under the Argentine plan, and parity for it has been requested but not yet granted.
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MAECIItaly's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)
An Italian school abroad: a state or paritaria school, the Italian curriculum, the esame di Stato exam and a diploma with the same legal value as in Italy.
What the badge means for this school. This is an Italian school abroad: it teaches the Italian curriculum, and Italy's foreign ministry names it on its list of state or paritarie schools - so Italy recognises its exams and diploma. The entry is not a quality inspection. Which stages are recognised and what the school charges are on this page and on the school's own website. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The Italian school curriculum taught in Italian: scuola dell'infanzia, primaria, secondaria di primo grado (scuola media) and the liceo, ending with the state exam, the esame di Stato, and the Italian diploma.
What this means for this school. The curriculum is set by the Italian state: the school is an Italian state school abroad or a paritaria school, recognised by Italy. Exams follow Italian rules and the diploma has the same legal value as in Italy, giving access to Italian universities. The host country's curriculum usually runs alongside, and students receive two certificates.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: A building in Villa Belgrano modelled on the castle tower of Castelfranco Veneto. The 'René Favaloro' physics, chemistry and biology lab, the 'Daniel Salzano' library (about 4000 books and 400 periodicals, online catalogue), a computer room with 25 laptops and a mobile lab with 32 netbooks, interactive whiteboards in classrooms, a dining hall with kitchen and a salad bar supervised by a nutritionist, inner and outdoor courtyards, and football and basketball pitches. Since 2024 the school has used the Colegio La Salle sports ground in Villa Belgrano for physical education (athletics track, hockey, football, volleyball and tennis courts). It is a full-day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Fútbol (football) · Gimnasia Rítmica (rhythmic gymnastics) · Mini Volleyball · Mini Handball · Judo · Atletismo (athletics) · Aerial Silks · Ajedrez (chess)
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
Primary lessons are taught by Spanish and Italian teachers on a mixed timetable, and in kindergarten Italian and Spanish are taught jointly from the 3-year group. The school says a large share of its primary teachers hold university degrees and train continuously, and their work is reviewed through an internal evaluation system. All primary grades have tutoring hours.
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
There is an educational psychology office (one specialist for kindergarten and one for primary and secondary): support for pupils, early detection of learning difficulties, advice to teachers and work with families. Pupils use the labs only with a teacher; the school practises an evacuation plan. Each level has school coexistence agreements, and there is a school-family co-responsibility pact.
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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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median73 "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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