← Back to the rankingIstituto Comprensivo "Cassiodoro - Don Bosco"
Reggio Calabria, Italy · State
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Istituto Comprensivo "Cassiodoro - Don Bosco" is a state institute uniting kindergartens, primary schools and the Don Bosco middle school in Pellaro, a southern district of Reggio Calabria, and nearby localities. According to the PTOF 2022-2025, 618 children attended the primary schools and 357 the middle school. Besides the standard and extended timetables, the middle school has a sezione Cambridge (32 hours and 34 lessons a week) with Cambridge programmes in mathematics and English as a second language. English is also supported by agreements with the Helen Doron programme in kindergarten and primary and Living Languages in middle school. The main language of instruction is Italian. The school focuses on inclusion, media education and a course in Calabrian literature.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees State school (scuola statale): there is no tuition fee. No charge for the sezione Cambridge appears in the PTOF or on the pages read.
Admissions State school: enrolment follows the state rules (the website links to the ministry portal and a section for families). The website and PTOF do not describe a separate selection for the sezione Cambridge. The school does not say whether it admits foreign students; the PTOF notes that the immigration rate in the area is below the Italian average but above that of the South.
Stages and year groups Grades infanzia, primaria 1-5, media 1-3. Istituto comprensivo: scuola dell'infanzia (5 sites), scuola primaria (5 sites, 39 classes) and the scuola secondaria di primo grado "Don Bosco" (17 classes), Italian state curriculum with the first-cycle state exam at the end of middle school. Lessons last 56 minutes: standard timetable 30 hours (32 lessons), extended 36 hours (36 lessons), sezione Cambridge 32 hours (34 lessons) a week. The sezione Cambridge follows the Cambridge Maths and English as a Second Language programmes; the PTOF does not mention Checkpoint exams. Middle school teaches English and a second European language (2 hours a week, not specified in the PTOF) and ECDL modules; primary has E-Citizen.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary. The Cambridge section of the middle school follows Cambridge programmes in Mathematics and English as a Second Language within a 32-hour week.
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: Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end.
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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 hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: PRISTEM Mathematical Games - Bocconi · Reading Project · Gazzetta del Sud - Noi Magazine (school journalism) · Ceramics Workshop · Scuola Attiva Kids and Junior (school sports programme) · Rackets in Class · Safe Cycling
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers136
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
According to the PTOF the institute has 136 teachers and 34 technical and administrative staff.
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 PTOF includes a counselling service project (Sportello di ascolto); the school works with local organisations on bullying and cyberbullying, adolescent difficulties and emotional education.
Reviews
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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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 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.
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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