← Back to the rankingIstituto Comprensivo «Fernanda Imondi Romagnoli»
Fabriano, Italy · est. 2000 · State
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Istituto Comprensivo Fernanda Imondi Romagnoli is a state school in Fabriano (province of Ancona), founded in 2000 as Istituto Comprensivo Fabriano - Centro and bearing its current name since 2006. It includes two scuole dell'infanzia, two scuole primarie and the Gentile da Fabriano middle school; about 890 children attend in 42 classes. Teaching is in Italian under the state curriculum. Since 2024 the school has been a Cambridge International school, and from 2024-2025 it opens the course in first-year classes: in the Cambridge sections of primary one hour a week in English with a native speaker (Global Perspectives in years 1-2, Science in years 3-5), and in the middle school English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives with a native speaker plus Science in English, one hour a week each. Playful English also starts in pre-school. In the middle school the second language is French or Spanish, with optional Latin from the second year.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, Latin
Class size
on average 21 students per class
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free. Families pay an annual fee for the Cambridge course (see fees); the school is funded by the state, PON programme funds and a small share of voluntary family contributions.
Admissions Admission to first year of primary and middle school is online via the state Unica platform (for 2026-2027 from 13 January to 14 February 2026); pre-school enrolment is on paper at the office. Applications are accepted within available places; when oversubscribed, the school's priority criteria apply. The Cambridge course in primary and middle school is chosen at enrolment; it is a separate section with an annual fee. The school does not write about admitting children from abroad; the middle school offers Italian as a second language (L2) courses.
Stages and year groups Italian state curriculum: scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria, scuola secondaria di primo grado (30 hours a week over five or six days, or an extended 36-hour timetable; ending with the esame di Stato del primo ciclo). Cambridge International from 2024-2025, starting with first-year classes: in the primary Cambridge section, Cambridge Primary with Global Perspectives one hour a week in years 1-2 and Science one hour a week in years 3-5, with a native speaker on top of normal hours; Cambridge Primary Progression Tests and Cambridge Primary Checkpoint in year 5. In the middle school Cambridge International section, Cambridge Lower Secondary: English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives one hour a week each with a native speaker on top of normal hours (one afternoon session 14:00-16:00), and Science one hour a week in English using CLIL with a school teacher. Pre-school has playful English. Separately, the school is a Cambridge English preparation centre (KET and PET exams).
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. Since 2024-2025 the Cambridge sections add an hour a week of Global Perspectives or Science with a native speaker in primary, with Primary Checkpoint in year 5, and ESL, Global Perspectives and Science in middle school.
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.
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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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Clubs and activities: School Sports Centre · Snow Week · Theatre Workshop · Music Workshop · Creative Writing Workshops · Mathematics Olympiad · Educational Robotics · My School for Peace · Environmental Education
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 sizein the key facts above
About 67% of teachers are permanent; the school notes that its teachers are on average older than 45, more so than regionally and nationally, which brings experience. Primary staff include a specialist English teacher; PE in year 5 is taught by a specialist and other classes are supported by a CONI coach. The Cambridge course is taught by native English speakers together with school teachers holding advanced language certificates. The number of inclusion specialists is above average.
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 policy
There is a working group on preventing bullying and cyberbullying and anti-bullying projects in the middle school, a counselling service (sportello d'ascolto), an inclusion committee and school assistants for children with disabilities; the school belongs to a network for gifted children and a health promotion network.
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 data65 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 "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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