Istituto Sacro Cuore is a Catholic scuola paritaria in Modena run by the Josephite Fathers; it dates from 1899, when Saint Leonardo Murialdo formally took over a youth centre founded in the city. One complex on Viale Storchi houses a middle school (scuola media) and upper secondary tracks: liceo classico, liceo scientifico, liceo linguistico and an istituto tecnico amministrativo. In all three licei some regular subjects can be studied in English on the IGCSE programme with Cambridge International exams: the school names Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Latin, and on the scientific liceo page also Science and Geography. The school is also a preparation centre for Cambridge English exams. The language of instruction is Italian; that part of the teaching is in English is drawn from the study plan pages.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, Latin
About the fees The school does not state its fees on the pages read. On its fees page it says it is not for profit, that fees pay for teacher salaries, teaching equipment, heating and maintenance, and that educating one upper secondary student costs it about 4500 EUR a year against 7500 EUR in a state school.
Admissions The office handles enrolment, transfers from other schools and withdrawals; the scientific liceo page links to an enrolment procedure, but the procedure, deadlines and entry requirements are not described on the pages read. The school says nothing about foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades 6-13. Scuola media (ages 11-14) and five-year licei: liceo classico, liceo scientifico, liceo linguistico, plus an istituto tecnico amministrativo. The scientific liceo adds 200 hours of mathematics and scientific method, computing and English over the first two years. In its section on supplementary curricular courses the school describes teaching some subjects in English with internationally recognised IGCSE exams: lessons and homework in some non-language subjects are in English and students prepare for IGCSE exams in those subjects; English lessons are supplemented by conversation with a native speaker. Named subjects are Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Latin, Science and Geography. The school does not give IGCSE hours per subject or the year the course started.
Address Viale Storchi 249, 41121 Modena (MO)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE.
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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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). 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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school occupies one complex on Viale Storchi in Modena. Its facilities page shows a canteen, an after-school programme (doposcuola), a library, a large gym and a separate dance studio, an outdoor court for five-a-side football and basketball, the Murialdo conference hall, a games room and classrooms with interactive boards; the school also has its own theatre. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Cambridge English Exam Preparation (PET, FCE, CAE) · University Entrance Test Preparation · Language Study Trips and Exchanges · Exchange with Sacré Coeur School in Graz · Volunteer Placement · Cineforum · Un treno per Auschwitz · Literary and Science Lectures · After-school Care (doposcuola)
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
After the school year the school offers middle and upper school students summer programmes: language trips to the UK and Spain and summer workshops at the school itself. Prices and dates are not given on the page.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school's documents include sections on safety and health protection plans and on safety in interpersonal relations; their content is not shown on the pages read.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data55 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 Value for money (6%) scored at the median95 "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 7 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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Modena, Italy · est. 1899 · Private