Istituto Pascal is a private secular school in the historic centre of Chieri near Turin for children from 5-6 to 19. The liceo was founded in 1976, since the 2014-2015 school year it has been run by a company set up by local entrepreneurs and teachers, and since 2015 the school has occupied the 17th century San Filippo convent. Today it is three schools under one roof. The Daisy primary school opened in 2023; it follows a Finnish model, full day, with a bilingual track: English through the Cambridge Primary English as a Second Language programme with the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint in grade 5, plus Spanish and Chinese; before grade 1 there is a Beginner Daisy preparatory class for five year olds. The Holden middle school is a paritaria, full day; from the 2026-2027 school year it runs the Cambridge Lower Secondary programme (English, Art and Technology, Global Perspectives) alongside the Italian curriculum, with English as the first foreign language and Spanish and Chinese as the second and third. The Licei Pascal are paritari: liceo scientifico (with a STEM focus from the 2026-2027 school year), liceo linguistico (English, French or Chinese, Spanish or German) and liceo delle scienze umane with the economic and social option; they lead to the esame di Stato. Liceo students are offered an American diploma alongside the Italian one, online with an American school. According to the school, there are 7 students per teacher and no more than 18 students per class.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 519–5 310 a year
4 000–4 700 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, Chinese, French, German
Students per teacher
7 students per teacher
Class size
no more than 18 students per class, according to the home page; the school plan for the liceo gives a limit of 24 students per class
Registration fee
≈ $452
400 EUR
About the fees Fees from 1 September 2025, per year, paid in 10 instalments from September to June: Daisy primary school 4700 EUR, Holden middle school 4000 EUR, liceo years 1-4 4000 EUR, year 5 4500 EUR; activities from 15:00 to 17:00 are included. A second child receives a 10% discount: 4230 EUR in primary, 3600 EUR in middle school and liceo years 1-4, 4050 EUR in liceo year 5. Excursions, trips and extracurricular activities are charged separately; reimbursement is possible through company welfare plans and Piemonte region vouchers.
Admissions Enrolment in first classes is through the state Iscrizioni online platform, after which the family submits the school's own enrolment form for the relevant level; the Beginner Daisy class accepts all five year olds, including those born after 30 April. The school does not describe entrance exams; families are invited to book a visit. Transfers from other schools and changes of track follow the transfer regulations, with supplementary exams if needed. The PTOF says the school has had and still has foreign students; applications for foreign children are accepted at any time of year, including without a tax code, and for children schooled abroad the family provides report cards translated through the consulate, after which the class council decides whether catch-up work is needed in subjects of the Italian curriculum; reception and Italian language support are provided. The American double diploma requires passing marks in all subjects and B2 English; if the level is too low, the liceo prepares the student itself.
Stages and year groups Daisy primary school (scuola primaria, non paritaria): the Italian curriculum taught with Finnish methods plus a bilingual track with the Cambridge Primary English as a Second Language programme; interim Cambridge Primary Progression Tests and the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint in grade 5. Beginner Daisy preparatory class for five year olds. Holden middle school (scuola secondaria di primo grado, paritaria): the Italian curriculum and esame di Stato del primo ciclo, and from the 2026-2027 school year Cambridge Lower Secondary in English (English as a First Language for children from international backgrounds and English as a Second Language for the others), Art and Technology and Global Perspectives. Licei Pascal (paritari): liceo scientifico (with a STEM focus from the 2026-2027 school year), liceo linguistico with three foreign languages and CLIL in years 3-5, liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale; five years, esame di Stato and diploma. For liceo students from age 14, an online American diploma programme (doppio diploma) with an American online school: 24 credits, 18 of which are recognised from Italian studies. The school names no Cambridge International courses in the liceo: there students prepare for Cambridge, DELE, Goethe-Zertifikat and Confucius language certificates.
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. The bilingual Daisy primary follows Cambridge Primary ESL with Checkpoint in year 5; from 2026-2027 the Holden middle school adds Lower Secondary English, Art and Technology and Global Perspectives, for an extra fee of 500 euros.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: STEM Lab · Ecogreen Lab · English-Language Productions · Dance · Golf · Swimming · Rugby · Athletics · Climbing · Yoga and Mindfulness · Lessons in the Bookshop
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
For Holden middle school students the school offers language holidays in Cádiz and in Ireland; the liceo has regulations for summer stays abroad.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
What the listings show: On its staff pages the school describes each teacher's background: they include native English speakers from the US and South Africa, native Spanish speakers from Argentina, a teacher from Finland responsible for the Finnish method, and teachers trained in the Montessori method and in Cambridge exam preparation.
The school names 12 primary school and 11 middle school staff with biographies, some of whom teach at several levels.
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 liceo has a school psychological support service (sportello di ascolto psicologico) with its own regulations; there are meetings with the Chieri Carabinieri on legality and with the postal police on social networks. Primary children on the bus are accompanied by a teacher; the school says that enough staff supervise students at entry, exit and breaks.
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 data70 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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Chieri, Italy · est. 1976 · Private