← Back to the rankingLonati Anglo-American School
Brescia, Italy · est. 2013 · Private
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Lonati Anglo-American School (LAAS) is a private English-language school in Brescia founded in 2013. It takes children aged 2 to 18: the Springarten toddler group, Kindergarten and Transition, Elementary School Grade 1-6, Middle School Grade 7-9 and the International High School for Innovation for ages 14-18. The early years and primary stages follow the IB Primary Years Programme, and the middle school continues its approach. The official language of instruction is English; Italian is taught throughout, Chinese or Spanish is a third language in primary, and Spanish and Latin in middle school. In the high school 70% of subjects are taught in English and the rest in Italian, and Italian students sit the state esame di Stato at the end of the fifth year. Middle school ends with the Italian first-cycle exam and the PET certificate in English and DELE in Spanish. The school has non paritaria status: it is listed in the Lombardy regional register of non-paritarie schools.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Italian
Languages taught
Spanish, Chinese, Latin
Admissions Applications are accepted and reviewed throughout the school year; a student may be admitted at any time of year at the principal's discretion after careful assessment and subject to availability. The school admits children from the local community and from the international community, Italian and foreign students living in the province of Brescia and Lombardy. Parents are invited to a personal interview and a school visit. Entry to the high school involves an entrance test: for 2025-2026 it was held from 23 to 27 June 2025, by compulsory booking.
Stages and year groups Grades Springarten, Kindergarten, Transition, Grade 1-9, High School 1-5. Springarten - under 3 (from age 2); Early Years - Kindergarten (age 3) and Transition (age 4); Elementary School - Grade 1-6 (ages 5-10); Middle School - Grade 7-9 (ages 11-13), with the Italian esame conclusivo del I ciclo, the Cambridge Preliminary (PET) certificate in English, DELE in Spanish and the school's own LAAS Personal Investigation Project in Grade 9; High School (International High School for Innovation) - ages 14-18, a five-year course with two two-year blocks and a final year, at the end of year 5 Italian students sit the esame di Stato. The IB Primary Years Programme runs in Early Years and Elementary, for ages 3-12 according to the school. The school is non paritaria, listed in the Lombardy regional register of non-paritarie schools.
Address Via Bormioli 60, 25135 Brescia
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Primary Years Programme. An English-medium school following the IB PYP in early years and primary; in high school 70% of subjects are in English and Italian students sit the esame di Stato.
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IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams 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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground
Campus: The school occupies a separate modern building with a glass facade about four kilometres east of central Brescia. The early years and primary building covers about 4600 square metres: on the ground floor are the Early Years classes with an art area, a reading corner, a child-sized dining area and an indoor playroom; on the upper floors are primary classrooms with interactive whiteboards and rooms for music, art, science, Latin, Chinese and two for Italian. The middle school extension covers about 2300 square metres of glass and wood: an open space, an «Innovations» room, specialist rooms, a second gym and an outdoor green area with a patio. The campus has a two-storey library, a 187-seat auditorium, a dining hall, a fully equipped gym, a winter garden for indoor play in the colder months and an infirmary; the building has a lift and air conditioning. Paid after-school activities run from 16:00 to 18:00, and in summer the school stays open until the end of July.
Clubs and activities: Aerial hoop · Aerial silks · Piano · Trumpet
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: Early years groups are taught by native-speaker educators; the middle school has native speakers of English, Italian and Spanish. The school speaks of highly qualified international staff.
PYP teachers plan lessons together and attend professional development courses. The school does not publish teacher numbers, class sizes or a student-teacher ratio.
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 room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
There is an infirmary in the administrative area. The school has a school psychologist, who ran a course for middle and high school students on conscious use of social networks and online risk prevention.
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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 data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 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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