← Back to the rankingIstituto Comprensivo Posatora Piano Archi
Ancona, Italy · State
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Istituto Comprensivo Posatora Piano Archi is a state group of three pre-schools, four primary schools and the Francesco Podesti lower secondary school in western Ancona for children aged 3 to 14. Its roots lie in the former 5th primary school district, which opened the first full-day school in Ancona in the 1969-1970 school year; the group took its present name after schools in the Archi district joined. Teaching follows the Italian national curriculum in Italian. Since the 2019-2020 school year the school has been a Cambridge International school: secondary students may take an after-school Cambridge Lower Secondary course - English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives with a native English speaker, with an exam at the end of year 3; three primary schools run a preparatory English hour with a native speaker. The school is multinational: in the 2025-2026 school year 436 of its 975 students were foreign nationals, 149 of 191 in the secondary school.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French
Class size
from 18 to 24 students per secondary class
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free. Families pay for the secondary Cambridge course and for the native-speaker English hour in the primary schools (see fees).
Admissions Admission to the first year of primary and secondary school follows the state Iscrizioni online procedure, linked from the website. The secondary Cambridge course is optional and paid by families: groups by year are formed according to the number who have paid. The school states that children from many countries have enrolled for years; it has a reception protocol for foreign students with Italian as a second language, a personalised learning plan and a project for newly arrived children.
Stages and year groups Italian state first-cycle curriculum: 14 pre-school sections, 25 primary classes (full day at Elia and Marinelli), 11 classes at the Podesti lower secondary school with the esame di Stato at the end of year 3; the secondary school has three English and Spanish sections and one English and French section. Cambridge course (since 2019-2020): Cambridge Lower Secondary in the secondary school - English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives, 2 hours a week after school with a native English speaker and a school tutor, using Cambridge International textbooks, with an exam at the end of year 3; optional and fee-paying. In the Frank, Da Vinci and Marinelli primary schools there is a preparatory English hour for all classes: English as a Second Language taught by the school's teacher, Global Perspectives by an external native speaker (paid by families); in years 4-5 at Da Vinci and Frank English as a Second Language uses the freed physical education hour.
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. An optional paid after-school Cambridge Lower Secondary course in ESL and Global Perspectives with a native speaker, with an exam at the end of year 3.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Nine buildings in the Posatora, Piano and Archi districts of western Ancona: the Podesti secondary school on Via Urbino, four primary schools and three pre-schools. The school's inventory lists multimedia, music and science rooms, three libraries, an assembly hall, five gyms, a canteen and transport for children with disabilities; the Marinelli, Frank and Da Vinci primary schools have raised-bed vegetable gardens. The secondary Cambridge course runs after school in the Elia primary school building on Via Sebenico. Secondary school runs six days, 8:00 to 13:00.
Clubs and activities: Theatre Workshop · Chess at School · Debate · Fuoriclasse in Movimento (student participation) · Orto in viaggio (school garden) · Race Against Hunger (charity run) · eTwinning
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 secondary Cambridge course is taught by a native English-speaking expert together with a school tutor; in primary, English as a Second Language is taught by the school's English teacher and Global Perspectives by an external native speaker. In years 4-5 physical education is taught by a specialist teacher.
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 psychology service for children, parents and teachers in all buildings: a counselling desk, class sessions and intercultural mediation projects, Parla con me!, funded by the Marche region. Anti-bullying and anti-cyberbullying projects for all secondary classes and a reception protocol for foreign students.
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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 data85 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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