← Back to the rankingIstituto San Paolo delle Suore Angeliche
Milan, Italy · est. 1938 · Private
Illustration · Milan
Istituto San Paolo delle Suore Angeliche is a Catholic school of the Angelic Sisters in Milan, operating since 1938 near CityLife. It takes children from nursery (from 12 months) through preschool and primary school to lower secondary school (scuola secondaria di primo grado). The school says it has been accredited as a Cambridge International School and is introducing Cambridge Lower Secondary in the middle school: Science and Global Perspectives taught entirely in English, with Cambridge syllabuses and materials, and the Cambridge Lower Secondary Checkpoint at the end of the three years. English starts in the early years: in primary and middle school one Geography, Science and History lesson is taught by CLIL together with an English teacher or a native speaker. The school is also a Cambridge English exam centre (KET, PET). The main language of instruction is Italian; this is drawn from the stage and programme pages.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Stages and year groups Grades Nido, Sezione Primavera, Infanzia, 1-8. Nursery (from 12 months), Sezione Primavera, preschool (scuola dell'infanzia), primary school (scuola primaria, grades 1-5) and lower secondary school (scuola secondaria di primo grado, grades 6-8) on the Italian curriculum. For the middle school the school writes that the Cambridge International programme will be introduced in Science and Global Perspective, taught entirely in English; syllabuses and materials come from Cambridge International; at the end of the three years students will be able to sit the Cambridge Lower Secondary Checkpoint. The school does not say from which school year these subjects run. CLIL in primary and middle school: one of the two Geography, Science and History lessons (in middle school Science and Geography) is co-taught with an English teacher or a native speaker.
Address Via Michelangelo Buonarroti 49, 20145 Milano
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary. The school is introducing the Cambridge course in Science and Global Perspectives in its middle school; the website describes it in the future tense.
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). 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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: The school is in a residential area near CityLife in Milan. The nursery (since 2003) has its own spaces: a soft corner, a play area, a reading corner, a creative workshop, a psychomotor room, a nap room, a dining room and an equipped garden. In the preschool there is lunch and an afternoon nap, with play in the large hall or the school garden; the school has a hall (salone) used for presentations and parties. Every middle school classroom has an interactive board, and students use Google Workspace for Education. It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: Supervised Homework Sessions (studio assistito) · Study Skills Course · Cambridge English Preparation (KET, PET) · DELE Preparation (Spanish) · Introductory Latin Course · Piano · Guitar · Dance · Musical · Swimming
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
English conversation in the middle school is taught by native speakers; middle school CLIL lessons are co-taught with a native speaker, and in primary with an English teacher.
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
A counselling service (sportello di counseling) is open to students and families; the middle school has a digital citizenship and cyberbullying prevention course and an emotional and relationship education project.
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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 data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median68 "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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