← Back to the rankingIstituto Santa Giuliana Falconieri
Rome, Italy · est. 1941 · Private
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Istituto Santa Giuliana Falconieri is a Catholic paritaria all-through school in Rome's Parioli district, from the Sezione Primavera for two-year-olds to the liceo. It was opened in 1941 by the Mantellate Serve di Maria congregation, which still runs it together with lay teachers. The school follows the Italian national curriculum in Italian, but about a third of lessons in primary and middle school are taught in English by native-speaker teachers: the school calls this bilingualism. Since 2015 the school has been accredited by Cambridge International at all stages: Cambridge Early Years in early years, Cambridge Primary with the Checkpoint exam in year 5, Cambridge Lower Secondary with the Checkpoint exam in middle school year 3, and Cambridge IGCSE and AS & A Level in the liceo. The liceo is called international and since 2020 has worked as a single combined class with four tracks: classical, scientifico scienze applicate (since 2023), languages with three foreign languages, and law and economics. History, mathematics, chemistry and biology in the liceo are partly taught in English; students who pass seven IGCSE exams receive the Cambridge ICE. The liceo ends with the Italian esame di Stato.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French, German, Latin
Admissions The school accepts children whose families accept and share its educational project. The Sezione Primavera takes children who turn 2 by 31 December (from September) or by 28 February (from January). Before enrolment the school invites families to open days and individual appointments; the open day booking forms ask for the previous school and the class of interest. The website does not describe entrance tests.
Stages and year groups Grades Sezione Primavera, scuola dell'infanzia, primaria 1-5, secondaria di primo grado 1-3, liceo 1-5. Sezione Primavera (from age 2), scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria, scuola secondaria di primo grado and the Liceo Internazionale with classico, scientifico scienze applicate, linguistico moderno (English, Spanish, French or German) and linguistico giuridico-economico (English, Spanish, law and economics) tracks, ending with the esame di Stato. Cambridge by stage: in early years Cambridge Early Years (a native-speaker teacher for 5 hours a week with three-year-olds and 16 hours with ages 4-5); in primary Cambridge Primary - 8 hours a week in English in years 1-2 and 10 hours in years 3-5, with Italian, mathematics, history and geography taught in Italian, and the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint exam in year 5; in middle school Cambridge Lower Secondary - 10 hours of English, with geography, computing, art history and one of two music lessons in English, and the Checkpoint exam in year 3. In the liceo Cambridge IGCSE exams by year: chemistry in year 2, English as a second language, biology and Latin (classical track) in year 3, mathematics in year 4, history in year 5; Spanish in year 2 (compulsory in the language tracks, optional in others), French or German in year 3, drama in year 4 as an option. AS & A Level: English in year 5, and Spanish in year 4 and French or German in year 5 in the language tracks. Seven IGCSE passes across five groups earn the Cambridge ICE.
Address Via Guidubaldo del Monte 17, 00197 Roma
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level. Cambridge runs through every stage: Checkpoint in year 5 and in year 3 of middle school, then IGCSEs in Chemistry, Biology, Maths, History and languages and AS and A Levels in languages in the liceo.
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: Early Years (ages 3-6), Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Early Years is the nursery stage, ages 3 to 6. There are no exams at the end: the stage describes what the youngest children are taught and how, and it follows the Cambridge frame rather than a national nursery programme. 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. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·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 Rome's Parioli district, near Piazza Euclide and the Villa Glori park. All classrooms have interactive whiteboards, the whole building has fibre-optic internet, and middle school students receive iPads on free loan for three years. Meals are cooked on site (kitchen run by the outside company Vivenda), the menu is approved by the local health authority, and children with allergies get a special menu. Young children spend breaks in the school garden. For projects the school uses city venues: the Euclide theatre, the Auditorium Parco della Musica and the Acqua Acetosa and Palazzetto dello Sport sports facilities. The school is an accredited ICDL test centre. There is no boarding.
Clubs and activities: Theatre Workshop · Creative Writing Workshop · Journalism Workshop · Lecturae Dantis (Dante readings) · Science Labs · ICDL · IMUN (Model United Nations) · Certamina (classical languages competitions) · Mathematics Olympiads
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
For liceo students the school runs study trips abroad every year: one of 5-6 days during the year and a second of two weeks in July, mainly to England, Ireland and Spain, less often to France and Germany; four language lessons in the morning and excursions in the afternoon. Among the liceo's extra activities the school lists a Summer School.
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 sizenot stated
What the listings show: All English teachers are native speakers.
All English teachers are native speakers; in the liceo parts of history, mathematics, chemistry and biology lessons in English are taught by native-speaker teachers. In primary each class has two teachers (humanities and science areas) together with English teachers. The early years team: a coordinator, 5 Italian teachers, 2 English teachers, 2 assistants, a religion teacher and a music teacher; in the Sezione Primavera an Italian teacher, an English teacher and an assistant. In middle school English conversation lessons the class is split into two groups with two teachers.
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 policy
For each stage the school has regulations and a protocol for preventing bullying and cyberbullying, and a form for reporting cases on paper or online. A project on safe use of social media was run with the Rome police (Villa Glori station) for students from primary to liceo; the parents' association holds meetings for adults. A safety protocol is published.
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Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data65 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.
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