The Istituto Comprensivo Via Boccioni is a state group of schools in the II Municipio of Rome: the Montessori nursery Casa dei bambini, the San Pio X and Principessa Mafalda primary schools and the Ippolito Nievo lower secondary school. According to the school it has 860 pupils in 45 classes. Since May 2017 the institute has been recognised as a Cambridge International School for primary and lower secondary, and it calls itself the first state primary school in Italy with this accreditation. In Cambridge classes, from the first year of primary to the third year of lower secondary, pupils have Mathematics, Science and English as a Second Language lessons following Cambridge programmes; native speakers teach them together with the class teacher, and at the end of primary and lower secondary pupils sit Checkpoint. Families pay for the native-speaker hours.
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. The three weekly hours with native English speakers on the Cambridge course are funded by a family contribution.
Admissions State school. Families choose the Cambridge course at enrolment; in lower secondary it runs for three years and cannot be interrupted; to join a lower secondary Cambridge class pupils must pass an entry test (the guidelines set a 25% threshold), which everyone takes, even with Movers or higher certificates. The institute has reception protocols for foreign pupils and an Italian language project.
Stages and year groups Grades infanzia, 1-5, 1-3, 45 classes. Montessori scuola dell'infanzia (40 hours a week), scuola primaria San Pio X (full day, 40 hours) and Principessa Mafalda (28-30 or 40 hours), scuola secondaria di primo grado Ippolito Nievo; 45 classes, on average 19 pupils. The Cambridge course since 2017: Cambridge Primary - Mathematics 1 hour, English as a Second Language 2 hours, Science 1 hour (since the 2022/2023 school year) in both full-time and modular classes; in year 5 - Cambridge Primary Checkpoint. Cambridge Secondary 1 (Lower Secondary) - Mathematics 1 hour and Science 1 hour in the morning within the mathematics hours, English as a Second Language 2 hours on Wednesdays from 14:10 to 16:10 on top of the 3 regular English hours; mid-term and end-of-year tests, and Checkpoint at the end. The school states that the Cambridge courses are part of curricular teaching and of the school plan, and participation counts towards assessment.
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.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: According to the PTOF 2022-2025 the institute's buildings have gyms, a computerised and a traditional library, and classrooms with internet. The nursery follows the Montessori method, and the primary schools run full-day schedules of up to 40 hours a week.
Clubs and activities: Orchestriamoci (orchestra, choir and body percussion) · Music Workshops · Dance at School · Theatre Workshops · Little Potters (ceramics) · School Garden · Coding, Tinkering and Making · Yoga at School · Canoeing and Rowing · Italian Model United Nations · Mathematics Olympiad
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
The Cambridge Maths and English as a Second Language programmes are taught by native English-speaking teachers from a partner association under the supervision of the class teacher; the Cambridge lead teacher checks morning and afternoon lessons and reports to the head monthly.
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 psychological counselling desk for children, teenagers, teachers and parents; an anti-bullying and anti-cyberbullying project; and the institute has reception protocols for foreign pupils.
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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