St. Louis School is a private British international school in Milan founded in 1996; it now has about 1800 students aged 2 to 18 on three campuses. Early years, primary and middle school (up to Year 9) run in parallel on two campuses, Caviglia in the south and Colonna in the north-east of the city, while since 2019 the High School has occupied the 17th-century Palazzo Archinto in the centre near the Duomo. The basis is the English National Curriculum; from Year 1 to Year 9 families choose the British stream or the Italian-English bilingual stream, which combines the English and Italian curricula: the primary school holds scuola paritaria status, and after Year 9 students can sit the terza media exam. In Years 10-11 students take Cambridge IGCSE, usually nine subjects, and Years 12-13 follow the IB Diploma Programme; with the right IB subject choice graduates can have the diploma recognised as an Italian school leaving qualification. The 2026 average IB score was 37.5. Teaching is in English, and also in Italian in the Italian stream; children without Italian are supported by an Italian as an Additional Language programme.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $15 511–29 802 a year
13 730–26 380 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Italian
Languages taught
French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Greek, Latin
About the fees Fees for 2026-2027 in euros per year, in three instalments by 30 April, 10 September and 10 January or in full at the start of the year. Caviglia and Colonna: Nursery, Kindergarten and Reception 13730 EUR, Years 1-2 18930, Years 3-4 19200, Years 5-6 19280, Years 7-8 22330, Year 9 22400. Archinto: Years 10-11 25230 EUR, Years 12-13 26380. Up to Year 9 the fee includes teaching materials, local day trips and swimming or alternative activities in early years and primary.
Admissions Admission runs year-round through the admissions team: enquiry, campus tour, an online application via a personal link with the latest school report and documents. From Year 1 an assessment is required before enrolment, with a non-refundable fee of 100 EUR; results are given within 5 working days, places are then allocated and parents sign the enrolment and school regulation forms. The IB Diploma Programme requires good English. The school's own students have priority for Year 10 at Archinto. The school describes itself as an international community of almost 50 nationalities; children without Italian have an Italian as an Additional Language course, while the site describes no specific support for children without English.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery, Kindergarten, Reception, 1-13. Early years on the British EYFS: Nursery (age 2), Kindergarten (age 3), Reception (age 4) on the Caviglia and Colonna campuses. Primary School (Years 1-6) and Middle School (Years 7-9, Key Stage 3) are on the same campuses; from Year 1 to Year 9 there is a choice of the British stream or the Italian-English bilingual stream; the primary school is a scuola paritaria, and after Year 9 students can sit the terza media exam. High School at Archinto: Cambridge IGCSE in Years 10-11 (usually nine subjects from languages, humanities, sciences, mathematics and creative subjects, exams at the end of the two-year course) and the IB Diploma Programme in Years 12-13 (six subjects at Higher and Standard Level plus TOK, the Extended Essay and CAS). From Year 10 both streams merge into the British stream. The school is a Cambridge exam centre and states that with a suitable IB subject choice graduates obtain the Italian equivalent of the esame di Stato.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeCambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeInspired · school is part of the networkThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. Younger years follow the English National Curriculum; in grades 10-11 students usually take nine Cambridge IGCSEs before the IB Diploma.
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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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). 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 →Inspiredschool network
Inspired Education Group is a private school group founded in 2013. The group gives different figures on its own pages - 125 schools on some, "more than 100" on others - and we quote both: choosing for a group which of its own numbers is correct is not something we do. Its schools are in Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and some of them keep their own historic names, such as King's College in Madrid and Riga. The group's site is inspirededu.com.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
37.5 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma: average score 37.5 in 2026; 37 in 2025, 36 in 2024 and 2023, 37 in 2022, 38 in 2021. IGCSE: 52% of grades A* and A, 76% of grades A*-B.
Where leavers go: University of Oxford · University of Cambridge · London School of Economics (LSE) · Imperial College London · University of St Andrews · University College London (UCL) · King's College London · Durham University · University of Warwick · Stanford University · University of California, Berkeley · University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
and others, 26 universities in the school's list in allMore than 500 students have graduated over the past eight years; about one third of each class stays in Italy for university. The school says most graduates enter their first-choice university.
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: Art studio · Playground
Clubs and activities: Volleyball · Basketball · Football · Drama · Choir · Band · French · Spanish · Mandarin Chinese · 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 sizenot stated
What the listings show: Teachers have teaching experience in the UK, Italy and elsewhere; language teachers are mostly from English-speaking countries, and Italian is taught by Italian teachers. At Archinto about 15 of the 50 teachers are IB examiners, and the core High School staff have been at the school for more than 10 years.
The school names the leaders of the three campuses, their deputies, the IB coordinator, the safeguarding leads and the admissions team.
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 policynot stated on the website
The Caviglia and Colonna campuses have designated safeguarding leads; at Colonna the same person also coordinates special educational needs. A complaint management policy is published. The school describes its kindergarten as a bright, safe and spacious environment.
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%)84 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 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.
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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Milan, Italy · est. 1996 · Private