← Back to the rankingIstituto Comprensivo Luigi Settembrini
Rome, Italy · est. 2011 · State
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A state istituto comprensivo in a central district of Rome near Villa Torlonia and Villa Ada, created in 2011 from two primary schools and the 'Luigi Settembrini' lower secondary: early years, primary and lower secondary in three buildings, about 900 pupils. Teaching follows the Italian state curriculum in Italian. The school is registered as a Cambridge International School and runs a fee-paying Cambridge track in primary and lower secondary: three extra hours a week with native speakers - one hour of science in English using CLIL and two hours of Global English (English as a Second Language) under the Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary programmes; Checkpoint exams are optional. In primary these hours are part of the full day; in lower secondary the track week is 32 hours with a lunch break. The school also teaches Latin within its curriculum, runs an experimental theatre track and prepares pupils for English, French, Spanish and German certificates; it is a Gold-level Cambridge English preparation centre.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, German, Latin
Class size
19 pupils per class on average
About the fees The school is state-run and tuition is free. The Cambridge track is fee-paying: the annual fee is paid in one instalment before lessons start in September via PagoPA; a partial reduction of up to 20% is available for families with ISEE up to 10000 EUR and for children with disabilities (no more than 4% of pupils). Checkpoint exams are paid separately.
Admissions Enrolment follows the national online iscrizioni procedure. The Cambridge track is chosen at enrolment; places are limited to the number of classes the school can open, and classes are formed by approved criteria. Once enrolled, pupils complete the whole course (5 years in primary and 3 in lower secondary) and may leave only for objective difficulties; the school may exclude pupils from the track for serious disciplinary breaches. The school says its pupils come from state and private schools, including foreign ones, and that foreign pupils recently arrived in Italy with limited Italian receive welcome activities involving their families and catch-up lessons in level groups.
Stages and year groups Italian state first-cycle curriculum: scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria (tempo pieno, 40 hours), scuola secondaria di primo grado (30 hours, 8:00 to 14:00), ending with the first-cycle esame di Stato. Part of the curriculum is devoted to Latin; there is an experimental theatre track. Cambridge track in primary and lower secondary: Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary - Science (one of the two science hours in English using CLIL) and Global English (English as a Second Language, 2 extra hours) with native speakers; Progression Tests during the course and an optional Cambridge Checkpoint at the end for a separate fee. In primary the track hours are within the 40-hour full day, in lower secondary the week is 32 hours with a lunch break. English and science grades are set jointly by the school teacher and the native speaker.
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. An optional fee-paying Cambridge track in primary and middle school adds one hour of science in English and two hours of Global English with native speakers; Checkpoint is optional.
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: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Choir · Coding · Rowing - Canottieri Aniene · Field Hockey · Fencing - Fiamme Oro · School Sports Games · Mathematics Games · Language Certification Preparation (English, French, Spanish, German)
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
The school reports 46 classes with 19 pupils per class on average. Cambridge track lessons are taught by native English speakers from an outside provider together with school teachers; the track is coordinated by an exams officer and two academic leads, for primary and lower secondary.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
There is a counselling service for pupils, families and staff (when state or regional funding is available), an occupational health doctor, a designated teacher and team for preventing bullying and cyberbullying, and an e-policy document on preventing cyberbullying.
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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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.
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