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Rome, Italy · est. 2000 · State
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Istituto Comprensivo Statale Giuseppe Montezemolo is a state school in southern Rome, in the Tre Fontane - Ottavo Colle district, combining scuola primaria and scuola secondaria di primo grado since 1 September 2000. It is named after Colonel Giuseppe Montezemolo, a Resistance fighter executed in 1944 at the Fosse Ardeatine. It has four sites and, according to the school, about 1400 students (the history section says more than 1500). Teaching is in Italian under the state curriculum. The middle school has a section with the Cambridge Lower Secondary course (curvatura Cambridge): 5-7 hours a week in English are added to the normal timetable - English, Science and Global Perspectives - taught jointly by the subject teacher and a native speaker. There is a music section with an orchestra, a choir and Erasmus+ projects.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Class size
on average 19 to 22 students per class depending on the site
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free.
Admissions Admission to primary and middle school follows the state procedure; for 2026-2027 the school held open days and enrolment advice from 1 December 2025 to 31 January 2026, with appointments with the deputy head by phone. Students come both from the local district and from other districts, from state and private schools. Enrolment in the Cambridge section commits the student for all three years of middle school; the final Checkpoint exams are optional. The school does not say on the pages reviewed how students are selected for the Cambridge section or the music section E. The school does not write about admitting foreigners; in its history section it notes a growing number of foreigners in the district, and the Italiano per tutti project teaches Italian through games for all students.
Stages and year groups Italian state curriculum: scuola primaria (mostly full day 8:10-16:10, Monday to Friday) and scuola secondaria di primo grado (Monday to Friday 8:00-14:00, section H with an extended timetable; ending with the esame di Stato del primo ciclo). Section E is the music track. Curvatura Cambridge in the middle school is Cambridge Lower Secondary for ages 11-14, three stages across three years: in each year English 3 hours, Science 1 or 2 hours and Global Perspectives 1 or 2 hours a week, 5-7 hours in English in total; lessons are taught jointly by the subject teacher and a native speaker without changing the overall timetable. Assessment: half-yearly reports, annual Cambridge Lower Secondary Progression tests and optional Cambridge Checkpoint at the end of the third year, marked in Cambridge. The course description is from the 2024-2025 presentation.
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 stream in middle school adds 5-7 hours a week in English across all three years: English, Science and Global Perspectives at Lower Secondary level, with optional Checkpoint.
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.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Choir · Orchestra · Educational Robotics and Coding · ECDL (computer skills certification) · Erasmus+ (exchanges) · Science Fair · Technical Drawing · EduGreen · Io leggo perché (reading campaign)
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
Cambridge course lessons are taught jointly by Italian teachers qualified in the subject and native English speakers competent in that subject. The choir has been led by the same teacher since 2000; the music section has its own instrument teachers.
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 school has a psychological counselling service (sportello psicologico, sportello di ascolto). The middle school runs the Unplugged addiction prevention programme with the ASL Roma C health service. The school writes that it continually removes architectural barriers and improves building safety.
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 data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 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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