← Back to the rankingScuole del Sacro Cuore Cesena
Cesena, Italy · est. 1924 · Private
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Scuole del Sacro Cuore is a Catholic paritaria school in central Cesena: the «Sacra Famiglia» kindergarten, a primary school and a middle school (scuola secondaria di primo grado). It was founded in 1924 by the sisters of the Istituto Lega Sacra Famiglia, gained state recognition in 1940, and since 1987 has been run by a foundation created by parents. Teaching is in Italian following the state curriculum. Since the 2024/2025 school year the school has followed the Cambridge International programme: Cambridge Early Years in the kindergarten with a native English speaker every day, and in primary and middle school English as a Second Language, Global Perspectives and Digital Literacy in English (6 hours a week in primary and 7 in middle school). Every afternoon after lessons there are free theatre, music, art and language clubs and homework help. The school has about 80 teachers.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $3 446–4 462 a year
3 050–3 950 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, German
About the fees Fees for the 2025/2026 school year: kindergarten 3050 EUR per year (including 200 EUR on enrolment, the rest in ten instalments); primary with the Cambridge course 3450 EUR (including 270 EUR on enrolment, the rest in nine instalments); middle school 3950 EUR (including 370 EUR on enrolment, the rest in nine instalments). A 5% discount applies to the second child in the foundation's schools and 10% to further children. For 2025-2026 a 70000 EUR solidarity fund was set up to reduce fees for families in difficulty.
Admissions Enrolment is through an enrolment page for each level and pre-registration; the school invites families to visit and talk to teachers. Three-year-olds settle into kindergarten over three days with parents taking part. The school says it is open to all; a solidarity fund helps families in difficulty and large families reduce the retta. The school does not describe separate admission conditions or entrance tests.
Stages and year groups Grades kindergarten (ages 3-5), grades 1-5, middle school grades 1-3. Scuola dell'infanzia «Sacra Famiglia» (ages 3-5, age-based groups) with the Cambridge Early Years programme: Global English 2, 3 and 5 hours a week by year with a native speaker. Scuola primaria (grades 1-5, a tutor teacher and specialists in PE, English, computing and CLIL): Cambridge Primary - English as a Second Language 4 hours, Global Perspectives 1 hour (as civic education), Digital Literacy 1 hour (as computing). Scuola secondaria di primo grado (30 hours a week): Cambridge Lower Secondary - English (Global English) 3 hours, English as a Second Language 2 hours, Global Perspectives 1 hour, Digital Literacy 1 hour; grade 1 follows the Cambridge programme Monday to Friday, grades 2-3 the previous bilingual curriculum Monday to Saturday; Spanish as a second foreign language, KET and PET exam preparation and the esame di Stato at the end. The school says that after an exam at the end of the Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary courses students can obtain an international certificate.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary. All primary pupils take Cambridge English as a Second Language, Global Perspectives and Digital Literacy; Cambridge Lower Secondary currently runs only in year 1 of middle school.
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: Early Years (ages 3-6), Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). Early Years is the nursery stage, ages 3 to 6. There are no exams at the end: the stage describes what the youngest children are taught and how, and it follows the Cambridge frame rather than a national nursery programme. 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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: Two sites in central Cesena: the kindergarten and primary on Via Don Minzoni and the middle school on Via del Seminario. All classrooms have interactive whiteboards or touchscreen monitors and Wi-Fi; there is a computer room, video-making and art labs, a library, a gym and a sports field, a theatre-auditorium, and the kindergarten has a courtyard, a garden and a small vegetable plot. The canteen works on daily booking. Since the 2000/2001 school year the school has run its own minibuses (nine nine-seat vehicles) from Cesena and neighbouring towns. There is early supervision from 7:30, after-school care and homework help (City Campus). It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Choir · Music · Art · Language Courses · Mathematics Competitions · Videomaking · City Campus
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
✓Number of teachers80
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: B2, C1 or C2 English for Cambridge course teachers
The school states it has about 80 teachers from kindergarten to middle school; the middle school page names 18 teachers with their subjects. Teachers are selected for competence and work as a team on shared projects. The Cambridge course is taught by native speakers and Italian teachers with B2, C1 or C2 English. In primary the core subjects are taught by a tutor teacher supported by specialists; in the kindergarten educators are supported by a native English speaker and workshop leaders.
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 policy
The middle school has a designated anti-bullying lead. For children with special needs each level has an inclusion plan and support teachers; in primary learning is personalised where needed.
Reviews
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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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 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.
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