The New School Rome is a small private not-for-profit British school in Rome for students aged 3 to 18, founded in 1972 by a group of parents and teachers. The school is run democratically: policy is set by an Academic Council of teachers and student representatives, and the association is governed by an Executive Council of parents, the head and teachers. All lessons are in English following the English National Curriculum: the nature-focused Little Explorers foundation stage, primary school, then GCSE and IGCSE exams at the end of Year 11 and A Levels in Years 12-13; the school says it is the only one in Rome offering the A Level programme. Exams are set by Cambridge International and Pearson Edexcel. About 40% of students come from Italian families, another 31% are British, American or have one English-speaking parent, with more than 35 nationalities in all. Classes have at most 17 students, and A Level groups have 3 to 7. All students learn Italian from age 5, and in Year 13 students can take an additional course and obtain the Italian maturità certificate for entry to Italian universities.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $12 088–22 369 a year
10 700–19 800 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · Pearson Edexcel
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Italian, French, Spanish
Class size
in Years 1-11 no more than 17 students, in Years 12-13 from 3 to 15 depending on the subject
Registration fee
≈ $1 695
1 500 EUR
About the fees Annual fees 2026-2027: Early Years 1 10700 EUR, Early Years 2 11260, Year 1-2 13770, Year 3-4 15640, Year 5-6 17210, Year 7 17880, Year 8-9 18710, Year 10-11 18870, Year 12-13 19800 EUR. Paid in three instalments by 30 June, 30 December and 30 March (40%, 40%, 20%); paying annually gives a 1% discount, five or ten instalments cost 1.5% or 3% more.
Admissions Enrolment starts with the form on the website or an email to admissions; the school offers a personal tour, open day or video call. Year group follows the British academic year: a child must be 3 by 31 August to enter Early Years 1 and 5 to enter Year 1, with rare exceptions. Entry to Year 12 normally requires at least five GCSE grades 6-9 and at least grade 6 in each subject chosen for A Level. Newcomers without English are assessed and placed in the English as an Additional Language programme - from one-to-one sessions to in-class support, in both primary and senior school. The school serves many diplomatic families: 10-15% of students leave and join each year; Italians make up about 40%, with more than 35 nationalities in all.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years 1-2, Year 1-13. English National Curriculum. Foundation Stage Little Explorers (ages 3-5, EYFS), primary Year 1-6 (ages 5-11), middle school Year 7-9, Year 10-11 - about 9 GCSE and IGCSE exams (English Literature and Language, Mathematics, Italian and at least one science compulsory), Year 12-13 - three or four AS and A Level subjects (Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, English Literature, French, History, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Politics, Spanish) and the optional EPQ. Examining boards are Cambridge International and Pearson Edexcel: Cambridge covers IGCSE English Literature, Chemistry, Computer Science and Cambridge International AS & A Level Computer Science. Italian as a native or beginners language from age 5; in Year 13 the corso integrativo with exams supervised by the Ministry leads to the maturità certificate. Thanks to a special status granted by the Italian government, students can transfer into the Italian system without state exams.
Address Via della Camilluccia 669, 00135 Roma
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeCOBIS · membershipThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level. British curriculum where Cambridge covers IGCSE English Literature, Chemistry and Computer Science plus AS & A Level Computer Science; other exams are Pearson Edexcel. The school is a member of COBIS.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →COBISCouncil of British International Schools
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Pearson Edexcel
A British exam board, the second after Cambridge. It issues its own versions of IGCSE and A-Level: the programme is the same in substance, what differs is who sets and marks the exams.
What this means for this school. The exams are set and marked by Pearson, and the school acts as an exam centre. Universities accept IGCSE and A-Level from Pearson on the same footing as the Cambridge ones. One caveat about checking: the Pearson centre search shows only those centres that agreed to be shown, so the absence of a school from it proves nothing.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Aggregated over 2022-2025 (about 60 students): at A Level 49% of grades A* and A, 89% A*-C; at GCSE 48% top grades and 87% passes. In 2025, 35% of A Level grades were A*-A. The school reports value added from baseline testing in Years 7 and 10 well above the average for UK schools.
Where leavers go: University of St Andrews · King's College London · SOAS University of London · University of Southampton · University of Glasgow · University of Bristol · University of Lancashire · University of Reading · Trinity College Dublin · ESADE Business School (Madrid) · Paris School of Business · University of Toronto
and others, 18 universities in the school's list in allGraduates of 2025 went on to study aeronautical engineering, medicine, mathematics, economics, engineering, dentistry, international relations, politics, philosophy, sociology, zoology and business management.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: Green grounds near the centre of Rome on Via della Camilluccia: a large garden, a multi-purpose sports pitch, a volleyball pitch, a performing arts room and drama room, a library, three modern science laboratories, a computer room, light classrooms. Early years children spend most of the day outdoors - in the outdoor classroom, at the forest fire circle and in the nearby nature reserve park; indoors the spaces are Reggio-inspired. Lunches are provided by the school, catering for diets and allergies; lunch is mandatory. Door-to-door school bus across most areas of Rome through the Todde Bus company.
Clubs and activities: Football · Volleyball · Basketball · Drama · Art · Little Explorers · Italian booster · Modern Dance · Computer Coding · Music lessons · The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award
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: All teachers hold a degree and the British PGCE teaching qualification or a European equivalent; most are British, and teachers of Italian, French and Spanish are native speakers. Each teacher's qualifications are published in the staff list.
Teacher turnover is very low, with an average length of service of 10 years. The 2025-2026 staff list names the leadership and primary and senior teachers with their degrees.
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
The school publishes a safeguarding policy to the British standard, health and safety, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity policies, and a complaints procedure for parents. There is a special educational needs coordinator and learning support, the form tutor role is set out in a separate policy, and there is a personal, social and health education programme.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 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 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.
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Rome, Italy · est. 1972 · Private