Pianca School is a private bilingual Italian-English school in Conegliano in the Prosecco hills. Its history began in 1974 with a preparatory class for five-year-olds; the bilingual programme started in 1998 and the current building opened in 2001. Today it has an asilo nido, scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria and scuola media - 12 classes and about 220 children, almost all Italian. The scuola dell'infanzia and primary school are paritaria, while the middle school is a non-paritaria school on the regional register; its pupils sit the esame di Stato and receive the Italian diploma. Since 2017 the school has run Cambridge programmes from the last year of kindergarten to age 14: Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary. The school deliberately calls itself bilingual rather than international: core Italian subjects are taught by Italian teachers, the rest by native English speakers.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 812–10 732 a year
7 800–9 500 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Registration fee
≈ $1 130
1 000 EUR
About the fees Annual fees 2026-2027: basic retta 2500 EUR (Nursery 3), 2600 EUR (Nursery 4 and Reception), 4200 EUR (primary and middle school); the optional Cambridge Pathway part (Cambridge course, language exam preparation, meals, materials, devices and subscriptions) costs 5300, 5400, 5900, 4500 and 5300 EUR; together the bilingual programme costs 7800 EUR in Nursery 3, 8000 in Nursery 4, 8500 in Reception, 8700 in primary and 9500 in middle school. Payment in full by 10 September 2026 (100 EUR discount), in three instalments or in ten monthly payments with a 100 EUR charge. The asilo nido for 2026-2027 is paid monthly, 530 to 820 EUR depending on pick-up time (afternoon only 380 to 530 EUR). Not included: uniform, trips, bus, clubs, middle school textbooks, language exams, esame di Stato, morning and afternoon care.
Admissions Enrolment is open, within available places, to children from Italian, foreign, bilingual and international schools who have the required grade or age and accept the school's rules and educational project. Enrolment for the following year follows the Ministry deadlines (usually by January); during the year children are admitted when a place is free after a test and/or interview and documents from the previous school. The middle school admits graduates of its own and other international primary schools, children whose first language is English or another foreign language who have come to Italy for their parents' work, and children from Italian schools after an English level check. The school runs individual Italian courses for foreign pupils and English support for children without English. Visits and enrolment are by appointment with the office; enrolment is valid once the fee is paid.
Stages and year groups 12 classes. The Italian national curriculum together with the Cambridge Pathway. The scuola dell'infanzia and primary school are paritaria; the middle school is a non-paritaria school on the regional register, ending with the esame di Stato and the Italian diploma after Grade 3. Cambridge: confirmed - Cambridge Primary over six years (Reception, the last year of kindergarten, and Grades 1-5): native speakers teach English, Mathematics, Science, ICT Starters and Cambridge Global Perspectives in English, with Cambridge Primary Progression Tests from Grade 2 and Cambridge Primary Checkpoint at the end; Cambridge Lower Secondary in middle school: English and Cambridge subjects in English, Italian, history and mathematics in Italian, geography, science, technology, art, music, PE and STEM bilingually; about 40% of lessons in Italian, 30% in English, 30% bilingual; Spanish is taught in Spanish. The Cambridge strand is paid as a separate optional part of the retta (Cambridge Pathway). Cambridge English language exams: YLE and KET in primary, PET and First in middle school.
Address Via Michele Giunti 12/A, 31015 Conegliano (TV)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary. The optional Cambridge Pathway covers Cambridge Primary from Reception to year 5 with Checkpoint, and Cambridge Lower Secondary in middle school with about a third of lessons in English.
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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). 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.
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
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Clubs and activities: Art and Creativity · Artistic Gymnastics · Psychomotor Activities · Music · Yoga · Theatre · Chess · Latin Course · Supervised Study · Journalism
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: The school says all teachers hold the required qualifications obtained in Italy or their country of origin; English teachers are native speakers or equivalent, recruited from various English-speaking countries.
The school employs more than 40 people: native English-speaking teachers, Italian teachers, support and administrative staff. Only the founder and head is named on the website.
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 building meets public health and fire service requirements, all rooms have emergency exits and evacuation drills are held regularly; the school takes part in a risk prevention system. The middle school runs an internet safety project and a health project with the local health service.
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 data70 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.
The score is counted from 8 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.
The full methodology → Similar schools in the country
Conegliano, Italy · est. 1974 · Private