← Back to the rankingScuola Ugo Foscolo
Ituzaingo, Argentina · est. 1991 · Private
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Scuola Ugo Foscolo is an Italian paritaria school in Ituzaingó, west of Buenos Aires, founded on 4 November 1991 in memory of the encounter between Italian immigrants and Argentines. It runs a kindergarten (scuola materna), a five-year primary school (scuola elementare), a middle school and a liceo with a foreign languages focus. The primary school follows a special Spanish - Italian bilingual plan approved by the Province of Buenos Aires, and the secondary school a special bilingual programme with a foreign languages orientation; the school cites a decree of the Italian education ministry and Foreign Ministry for its Italian parity. Each primary class is led by a pair of teachers, Argentine and Italian, who teach a single programme in both languages; in the middle school and liceo one group of subjects is taught in Spanish and the rest in Italian. The liceo studies Italian, English, Latin and Portuguese and sits international language exams. The Ituzaingó city council declared the school of municipal interest; it has a cooperation agreement with Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Key facts
Programmes
Italian programme · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, Spanish
Languages taught
English, Portuguese, Latin
Stages and year groups Kindergarten (scuola materna), a five-year primary school on a bilingual plan combining the official Argentine and Italian programmes (provincial resolution 4681/95, disposition 342/12), a middle school (scuola media) and a liceo with a foreign languages orientation (disposition 596/11, resolution 350/15 of the Province of Buenos Aires); the site calls the top year '4ta Liceo', so the liceo lasts four years, and refers to a 'Escuela Lingüística'. Parity: decree 4815/1857 of the Italian education ministry and Foreign Ministry. The site does not state directly whether graduates sit the esame di Stato or which Argentine qualification is issued. In primary grade 5, middle school and the liceo, students write and defend a final project (tesina).
Address Gral. Alvear 941, CP 1714 Ituzaingó, provincia de Buenos Aires
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
MAECIItaly's foreign ministry names the school on its list of paritarie Italian schools abroad: it teaches the Italian curriculum, and Italy recognises its exams and diploma on a par with state schools.
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
MAECIItaly's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)
An Italian school abroad: a state or paritaria school, the Italian curriculum, the esame di Stato exam and a diploma with the same legal value as in Italy.
What the badge means for this school. This is an Italian school abroad: it teaches the Italian curriculum, and Italy's foreign ministry names it on its list of state or paritarie schools - so Italy recognises its exams and diploma. The entry is not a quality inspection. Which stages are recognised and what the school charges are on this page and on the school's own website. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The Italian school curriculum taught in Italian: scuola dell'infanzia, primaria, secondaria di primo grado (scuola media) and the liceo, ending with the state exam, the esame di Stato, and the Italian diploma.
What this means for this school. The curriculum is set by the Italian state: the school is an Italian state school abroad or a paritaria school, recognised by Italy. Exams follow Italian rules and the diploma has the same legal value as in Italy, giving access to Italian universities. The host country's curriculum usually runs alongside, and students receive two certificates.
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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school calls each kindergarten classroom an 'atelier', a space for exploration and creativity inspired by Miró, Chagall and Kandinsky; art, music, the library and physical education complement the programme. The school has a library. It is a day school with no boarding.
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
Each primary class is led by a pair of teachers, Argentine and Italian, who teach a single programme in both languages. The school does not publish staff numbers, qualifications or class sizes.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median73 "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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