← Back to the rankingIstituto Comprensivo Statale Ernesto Monaci
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy · State
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The Istituto Comprensivo Ernesto Monaci is a state group of nursery, primary and lower secondary schools in five municipalities of the province of Viterbo: Soriano nel Cimino, Vasanello, Gallese, Bomarzo and Bassano in Teverina. According to the school it has 1433 pupils in 74 classes. Since the 2018-2019 school year the school has been accredited by Cambridge for primary and lower secondary. Cambridge classes add 3 hours with native English speakers to the regular programme: 1 hour of Science during school hours and 2 hours of Global English in the afternoon; at the end of primary and lower secondary, pupils may sit the Checkpoint exam. Families choose the course at enrolment; it is fee-paying and runs for the whole cycle: 5 years in primary and 3 years in lower secondary.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free. The Cambridge course is paid separately: in the 2026-2027 school year 340 EUR in three payments (100 EUR by 30 June as a deposit, 140 EUR by 15 October, 100 EUR by the end of March). If the course does not open for lack of 11 pupils, the deposit is refunded.
Admissions State school. Families choose the Cambridge track at enrolment; applications after the deadline are not accepted, the course opens with 11 to 21 pupils and runs for the whole cycle without the option to withdraw (5 years in primary, 3 years in lower secondary). According to the PTOF 2025-2028 the share of pupils with non-Italian citizenship in the institute is in line with the national average, and noticeably higher in the municipality of Vasanello.
Stages and year groups Grades infanzia, 1-5, 1-3, 74 classes. Scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria (5 years) and scuola secondaria di primo grado (3 years) in five municipalities; 74 classes, on average 19 pupils per class. The Cambridge track (Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary) runs in primary and lower secondary: 3 hours with native-speaker experts on top of the regular programme - 1 hour of Science during school hours and 2 hours of Global English in the afternoon; Cambridge classes in lower secondary study 32 hours a week, 2 more than usual, and primary classes add 2 afternoon hours. Science and Global English are assessed on four levels. In April, pupils in the last year of primary and the third year of lower secondary may choose to sit Cambridge Checkpoint. In the 2026-2027 school year lessons started on 5 October; at the Soriano lower secondary school, Global English groups for classes 2A, 2C and 3A/C meet on Thursdays from 14:30 to 16:30.
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.
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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: 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.
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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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: All buildings of the institute are free of architectural barriers; all primary and lower secondary classrooms have interactive boards and smart boards, and innovative learning spaces were equipped under the Scuola 4.0 programme. The primary schools have their own gyms; the others use municipal gyms.
Clubs and activities: DELF A2 Preparation (French)
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
Cambridge hours are taught by native English-speaking experts provided by an external organisation selected by tender; a school tutor teacher works with each group. The course is coordinated by an exams officer and a Cambridge lead teacher. According to the PTOF 2025-2028 most teachers have permanent contracts, and more than 75% have worked at the institute for at least 6 years.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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 data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data61 "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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