← Back to the rankingIstituto Comprensivo Statale «Pietro Vanni»
Viterbo, Italy · State
Illustration · Viterbo
Istituto Comprensivo Statale Pietro Vanni is a state group of two pre-schools, the Alessandro Volta primary school and the Pietro Vanni lower secondary school in Viterbo for children aged 3 to 14. Teaching follows the Italian national curriculum in Italian. The school is a Cambridge International school and runs Cambridge classes: in primary these are full-day classes (40 hours) following Cambridge Primary, in secondary six Cambridge Lower Secondary classes with 32 hours a week. In these classes Science and Global English lessons with native English speakers are added to the standard curriculum. The secondary school is the largest part of the group: 26 classes, 9 of them Digital Sperimento classes using students' own devices. The school uses a subject classroom model (Au.La.Di.), and the neighbouring historic Villa Fornaciari houses a library and a planetarium.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free. Secondary Cambridge classes carry a compulsory fee of 400 EUR a year (since the 2025-2026 school year, until reviewed by the school council), with 5% off for a second child and 10% for a third; the school council may grant partial exemptions of up to 30% to families with an ISEE up to 10000 EUR and to children with disabilities. Voluntary contribution: pre-school 10 EUR, primary 15 EUR, standard secondary classes 20 EUR, digital classes 30 EUR; insurance 6.50 EUR for three years.
Admissions Primary and secondary enrolment is online through the state Piattaforma Unica (in 2026 from 13 January to 14 February); pre-school enrolment is by paper form sent by email. Families choose the Cambridge track when enrolling: in primary it is the 40-hour full-day option, in secondary a Cambridge class instead of a standard or digital class. If places run short a ranking is drawn up under the school council's criteria, with a draw in case of a tie; the choice of track and second language is not binding on the school. Once enrolled in a Cambridge class, a student completes it to the end of the stage (5 years in primary, 3 in secondary) and may leave only for objective reasons. The school has a reception protocol for children without Italian citizenship - newly arrived children, children from non-Italian-speaking families, unaccompanied minors and children adopted from abroad; such children attend at every stage.
Stages and year groups Italian state first-cycle curriculum: two pre-schools at 40 hours a week; Volta primary (15 classes) - 27 hours in the morning (plus 2 hours of physical education in years 4-5) or a 40-hour full day with lunch, available only on the Cambridge track; Vanni secondary (26 classes) - standard and Digital Sperimento classes at 30 hours and Cambridge classes at 32 hours, with the esame di Stato at the end of year 3. Cambridge course: Cambridge Primary in the full-day primary classes and Cambridge Lower Secondary in six secondary classes; 3 hours with a native speaker are added - one of the two Science hours and 2 hours of Global English (within the 40 hours in primary, 2 hours beyond the standard 30 in secondary). Course marks go into the report under Science and English. Cambridge Primary Progression Tests and the Checkpoint exams at the end of each stage are optional and paid separately by families. The school is also a Cambridge English preparation centre and an ECDL test centre.
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. Cambridge classes run in full-day primary and in six middle school classes, adding Science and Global English with native speakers; Checkpoint is optional and paid separately.
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: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Basketball · English, French, Spanish · ECDL / EIPASS · Erasmus · eTwinning · Snow School
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
Science and Global English in the Cambridge classes are taught by native English speakers from the organisation that won the tender for language assistants; the course has an exams officer and one academic coordinator each for primary and secondary. The native speakers meet families twice a year (February and end of year) and hand over a progress report.
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
A free counselling service, SiAMO in ascolto, for students, families and staff: individual sessions with a psychologist and psychotherapist with parental consent, and class workshops. The school regulations include protocols on bullying and cyberbullying, on receiving foreign children and on hospital and home schooling.
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 data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 "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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