First Campus Bergamo is a paritaria school complex in central Bergamo run by Fondazione Luigi Clerici together with the Suore Sacramentine congregation. It covers the path from 3 months to the diploma: a nursery (asilo nido) and Primavera section, the Casa dei Bambini kindergarten, primary, lower secondary and an upper school with two tracks - the liceo delle scienze umane (traditional with a focus on neuroscience and biotechnology, and economic-social with enhanced languages) and a technology institute in computing and telecommunications. Teaching is in Italian. Primary and lower secondary have two tracks: standard and enhanced (First Campus Potenziato), where Computing, music, art and Global Perspectives are taught in English following the Cambridge International programme, with Chinese or Spanish added. The foundation is a Cambridge English exam centre, and students take language exams from Starters to First. The school emphasises digital technology, robotics, labs and project-based learning.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Chinese, Spanish, Latin
About the fees The school does not publish its retta on the website; it is given on request. Families can apply for the regional Dote Scuola, Lombardy's grant towards the retta and learning materials.
Admissions Enrolment is through a personal interview by appointment and open days: the school offers individual interviews for the nursery and kindergarten, primary, lower and upper secondary. For the 2026-2027 school year waiting lists are open for the nursery, the Primavera section and the youngest kindergarten group, while places remain in the middle and older kindergarten groups; interviews for the 0-6 stage for 2027-2028 are under way. Upper school students receive a diploma equivalent to the state one. Families can apply for the regional Dote Scuola grant towards the retta and learning materials. The school does not describe admission conditions for foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades nursery (3 months - 3 years), Primavera and kindergarten (ages 2-6), grades 1-5, lower secondary grades 1-3, upper secondary grades 1-5. Asilo nido for children from 3 months to 3 years; a Primavera section from 24 months and scuola dell'infanzia up to age 6 with English taught by the Cambridge method in daily activities. Scuola primaria: a standard track (35 modules) and the enhanced First Campus Potenziato track (37-40 modules) with the Cambridge Pathway - Computing, Music, Art & Design and Global Perspectives in English, plus Chinese and Latin in grade 5. Scuola secondaria di primo grado: a standard track until 13:45 (30 hours) and the Progetto Cambridge until 16:15 (39.5 hours) - Computing, music, art, Global Perspectives and extra lessons in English following the Cambridge International programme, plus Chinese or Spanish; Cambridge Lower Secondary Checkpoint exams are not mentioned. Scuola secondaria di secondo grado: the liceo delle scienze umane (traditional and economic-social, the latter teaching history and economics partly in English with a native speaker) and the istituto tecnologico (informatica e telecomunicazioni), ending with the esame di Stato.
Address Via S. Antonino 8, 24122 Bergamo (BG)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary. Only the enhanced primary and middle school track teaches computing, music, art and Global Perspectives in English to the Cambridge 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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground · Makerspace
Campus: A single building in central Bergamo at Via S. Antonino 8: large, bright classrooms with interactive whiteboards and Wi-Fi throughout, technical and digital labs, a multipurpose computer and language lab, the ScienceBus mobile science lab for physics, chemistry and biology experiments, a learning centre with the e.DO robot, a library, a theatre, gyms, a conference hall, a canteen, a snack area and a courtyard. The nursery has separate sections with their own entrances, nap rooms and a shared shaded terrace; the kindergarten has an equipped psychomotor hall, an atelier and large outdoor spaces. Upper school students receive a device on free loan for the duration of their studies. There is after-school care and early morning supervision. It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: Theatre "Vieni a teatro?" · Piano Course · Guitar Course · Chinese Course · Three-Year Spanish Course · Latin Course · ICDL Base Course · Self-Defence and Aikido · Archimedes Project (mathematics) · Sport: Swimming, Skiing, Basketball · Mindfulness - Yoga · Dance and Circus
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 school mentions qualified staff and continuous teacher training. English in primary is taught together with native-speaker teachers; in lower secondary 2 of the 5 English hours are with a native speaker. There is a working group on innovative teaching for all levels and support from Psycho Educational Academy specialists.
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 Psycho Educational Academy team provides support with settling in, socialisation, self-knowledge, guidance and emotional education. For students with learning difficulties (DSA and BES) teaching and materials are adapted, with a dedicated working group. The kindergarten and primary run emotional development programmes.
Reviews
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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 data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median79 "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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