Istituto Massimiliano Massimo is a private, state-recognised (paritaria) Catholic school of the Society of Jesus in Rome's EUR district. Its history is linked to the Jesuit Massimiliano Massimo, who in 1879 gave the order his family palace by the Baths of Diocletian for a school; since 1960 the school has been in its current EUR complex, completely rebuilt after 2007. It takes children from kindergarten at age three to the lyceum final exams: primary and middle school, liceo classico, liceo scientifico and, since 2025-2026, liceo scientifico sportivo. It follows the Italian curriculum and Ignatian pedagogy; lessons are in Italian, but in kindergarten half of each day's activities are in English with English-speaking teachers. The school is a Cambridge International School: in middle school English and science follow Cambridge Lower Secondary, and the lyceums offer IGCSE courses in biology, English, geography, design and technology, physical education and business with English-speaking specialists; Spanish is compulsory from middle school. Students take part in Model United Nations and exchanges with Jesuit schools in Spain, the UK, Australia and the US.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 406–9 117 a year
5 670–8 070 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, Latin
Registration fee
≈ $904
800 EUR
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027 are paid in three instalments (September, January, April) plus an enrolment fee by 31 January. Excluding the enrolment fee: kindergarten 6070 euros a year for the three-year-old group and 5670 euros for the 4-5 groups (until 14:00, with breakfast and lunch), primary 6270 euros, middle school 7920 euros, lyceums 8070 euros. The enrolment fee is 800 euros (400 euros in the kindergarten three-year-old group); with it the annual totals are 6470, 7070, 8720 and 8870 euros. Primary fees include Monday and Wednesday lunches, middle school fees Monday lunches. Payment is possible in 10 interest-free monthly instalments via bank financing or by card.
Admissions Enrolment for 2026-2027 is open to current students and children from other schools: parents contact the academic office, arrange a meeting with the coordinator of the relevant stage and hand in the completed forms signed by both parents in person. Transfers into upper years need report cards from previous years and release from the previous school. Enrolment is confirmed by the enrolment fee by 31 January and is possible only with no arrears owed to the school. The school holds an open day and awards scholarships under the 'Youth, Leadership and Future' programme to able students from families who cannot afford the fees. The website does not separately address the admission of foreign students.
Stages and year groups Italian curriculum ending in the esame di Stato. Kindergarten: half of the daily activities in English with English-speaking teachers, day until 14:00 with extended care until 18:00. Primary: five English lessons a week with English-speaking teachers, Arts & Crafts and ICT in English, history, geography or science modules in English. Middle school: four English lessons (two with a native speaker), geography with an English-speaking specialist, Cambridge Lower Secondary ESL and Science, two Spanish lessons a week. Lyceums: liceo classico (since 2018-2019 +2 hours of biology on the Cambridge programme and +1 hour of art history), liceo scientifico with reinforced mathematics, sciences and languages, liceo scientifico sportivo (since 2025-2026); Cambridge IGCSE courses in the curriculum - Biology, English as a Second Language, Geography, Design and Technology, Physical Education, Business Studies - with English-speaking specialists; Spanish two lessons a week up to year 4; IELTS preparation.
Address Via Massimiliano Massimo 7, 00144 Roma (EUR)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE. Cambridge Lower Secondary ESL and Science in middle school; in the licei IGCSE Biology, ESL, Geography, Design and Technology, Physical Education and Business Studies.
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), IGCSE (ages 14-16). Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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 · Playground
Clubs and activities: MUN - Model United Nations · BGREEN · Business@School · Jesuits and History · Laudato si' Competition · Artistic Gymnastics · Rhythmic Gymnastics · Classical and Contemporary Dance · Acrobatics · Athletics · Basketball · Five-a-Side Football · Volleyball · Badminton · Floorball · Field Hockey
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
In summer the school's sports association runs a sports centre at the school for children in age groups: athletics, gymnastics, mini-basketball, mini-volleyball, pickleball, five-a-side football, badminton, table tennis, games in an above-ground pool, creative and logic workshops with sports coaches. There is also a residential camp on Monte Amiata.
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 stage pages name the board chair, the general director, stage coordinators and class coordinators. English in kindergarten and primary is taught by English-speaking teachers; Cambridge courses in middle school and the lyceums are co-taught with English-speaking subject specialists; Spanish in the lyceums is taught by a native speaker. Teachers receive ongoing training.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Families sign an educational co-responsibility agreement at each stage; there are rules on administering medicines at school, recording allergies and food intolerances, and delegating child pick-up. Lyceum students have subject help desks, catch-up classes, spiritual talks and retreats. The school operates a quality management system.
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 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.
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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Rome, Italy · est. 1879 · Private