Scuola San Giovanni Battista is a private Catholic school run by the Sisters of San Giovanni Battista in western Rome (Aurelia area), from nursery school to liceo; it is a paritaria school within the national education system. The school was built on the congregation's land after 1952; it began as a teacher-training college with a primary and middle school, and since 1991 it has again had a liceo. Today about 700 students attend in 33 classes: nursery school, primary school, scuola media, liceo classico, liceo scientifico and, since 2015, liceo scientifico sportivo. The scuola media and the classical and scientific licei have separate Cambridge sections: in the middle school English as a Second Language and Science are taught in English with the Cambridge Lower Secondary Checkpoint exam at the end of year 3, and in the liceo IGCSE English as a Second Language and Business Studies in years 1-2 and IGCSE Biology in years 3-4. Other subjects are taught in Italian.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, Latin
Admissions Enrolment is online through the school system on the website. In the middle school Cambridge section students move gradually to learning in English; new students attend a residential Cambridge Camp at the start of the year. The school does not publish other admission conditions, entrance tests or language requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades scuola dell'infanzia, scuola primaria 1-5, scuola media 1-3, liceo 1-5. Italian paritaria curriculum: scuola dell'infanzia (4 groups), scuola primaria (2 full streams), scuola media (3 streams, esame di Stato del primo ciclo), licei with the maturità: liceo classico, liceo scientifico, liceo scientifico sportivo. Cambridge International only in the Cambridge sections: in the scuola media - Cambridge Lower Secondary, English as a Second Language 4 hours and Cambridge Science, internal Progression Tests and the Checkpoint exam at the end of year 3, plus Spanish 2 hours, 32 hours a week with one longer day until 16:30; in the Cambridge liceo classico and liceo scientifico - IGCSE English as a Second Language (4 hours) and Business Studies (2 hours) in years 1-2, IGCSE Biology (3 hours) in years 3-4.
Address Via del Casale di San Pio V 11/13, 00165 Roma
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Lower Secondary, IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Lower Secondary, Cambridge IGCSE. Cambridge sections only: middle school takes English as a Second Language and Science with Checkpoint; the classico and scientifico take IGCSE English and Business Studies in years 1-2 and Biology in years 3-4.
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), IGCSE (ages 14-16). 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.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: A modern 1950s building (designed by the Passarelli studio) with large bright classrooms and green grounds, two entrances - from Via del Casale di San Pio V and Via Aurelia Antica - and two large car parks. There is a 15-seat computer room, a science, physics and chemistry laboratory, large multimedia screens in all classrooms, two gyms, an artificial five-a-side football pitch, a volleyball and basketball court, a mobile stage for performances, a canteen, a garden café, and indoor and outdoor play areas for the nursery school. It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: Cambridge English Courses · Latin Course · EIPASS Certifications · Computer Science Workshop · Mime and Gesture Workshop · Armonia Workshop (music)
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
The Cambridge programme and Cambridge English courses are taught by a native English-speaking teacher; the Latin course for year 3 of the middle school is taught by a literature teacher. Teachers are employed under the AGIDAE contract for Catholic schools. The site gives no list of teachers by name.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
A psycho-educational counselling service is available to parents of nursery, primary and middle school pupils; the school psychologist takes part in the inclusion plan, and there is an inclusion group and individual plans for children with special needs. The school holds an Accredia quality certificate.
Reviews
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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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 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.
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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