← Back to the rankingIstituto Marcelline di Foggia
Foggia, Italy · est. 1898 · Private
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The Istituto Marcelline di Foggia is a Catholic private school with paritaria status in Foggia: nursery, primary and lower secondary school. It was founded in 1898 at the wish of Bishop Carlo Mola and belongs to the congregation of the Marcelline sisters, who have worked in education since 1838. The school is a Cambridge International School: in primary, pupils prepare during school hours for Checkpoint in Science, and in lower secondary for Checkpoint in Cambridge Global Perspectives, where they research a global topic. English is taught from year one by a teacher and a native speaker, and pupils also take Cambridge English exams from Movers to B1 Preliminary. In 2024 one of the school's English teachers won the 'English Teacher who makes a difference' award at the Preparation Centres Awards ceremony in Rome.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $2 700–2 920 a year
2 390–2 585 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees Fees for the 2026/2027 school year: nursery 2390 EUR, primary 2405 EUR, lower secondary 2585 EUR per year. In primary the fee includes after-school homework support from 14:30 to 17:00 and supervision before and after lessons. Reductions on fees and meals are available on application with an ISEE certificate; families can recover part of school costs through a tax deduction.
Admissions The private paritaria school admits children to its nursery, primary and lower secondary school; there is a presentation meeting for prospective lower secondary pupils. Foreign pupils are placed in classes by age and previous years of schooling by decision of the class council after an assessment of their Italian. Families with an ISEE certificate can request reductions on fees and meals.
Stages and year groups Grades infanzia, 1-5, 1-3. Scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria (5 years) and scuola secondaria di primo grado (3 years). Primary: lessons Monday to Friday from 8:15 to 13:30, compulsory afternoon sessions from 15:00 to 17:00, optional Saturday workshops from 8:30 to 12:30; classes have an English teacher and a native speaker. Lower secondary: 33 hours a week from 8:10 to 13:30, with afternoon sessions on Thursdays from 14:45 to 17:15 for years 1 and 2; the timetable includes 3 hours of English, 1 hour with a native-speaker assistant and 2 hours of Spanish. Cambridge: in primary, preparation for Checkpoint in Science and for Movers during school hours; in lower secondary, Cambridge Global Perspectives with a Checkpoint exam; the school states that pupils sit Checkpoint at the end of the pathway.
Address Corso Garibaldi 108, 71121 Foggia
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 hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Campus: According to the PTOF the school building has an audiovisual room, classrooms with interactive boards, a computer laboratory with internet in every classroom, a science laboratory, an art room, a music, singing and drama room, a multimedia room, a gym, four libraries, a conference and performance hall, a chapel, its own kitchen, a canteen with menus approved by the health authority, and a playground.
Clubs and activities: Five-a-Side Football · Athletics · Karate · Mini Basketball · Mini Volleyball · Swimming · Hip Hop · Music Courses · Reading and Theatre Workshops
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
In primary each class has a main teacher plus specialists for English, music, physical education, religion, computing and art, and a native speaker supports English. In lower secondary subjects are taught by subject teachers, with a native English-speaking assistant. In 2024 English teacher Valentina Matone won first prize in the 'English Teacher who makes a difference' category at the Preparation Centres Awards.
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 employs a psychologist who helps the class council identify special educational needs and draw up individual plans.
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 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.
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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