Rome · time the hill
Rome is not one international campus. It is a boarding high school on the Aventine, a British through-school on La Storta, an American AP-and-IB house on Via Cassia, and a French AEFE week on three sites. Ask which paper, and which gate.
Rome is not “the international school.” It is several hills sharing a traffic story, plus four official doors posting families name in the first week, and a much older set of licei and paritarie that stay families name in the second.
The portraits we have are St. Stephen’s on Via Aventina, St George’s at La Storta and a Vatican-side junior, AOSR on Via Cassia, and Chateaubriand on three Roman sites. Use them for euro tables and admissions rules. St. Stephen’s and AOSR print 2026/27. St George’s prints parent and employer columns. Chateaubriand prints the AEFE decision. This note is the city between them. The Italy country page is the wider map — Milan, Varese, Duino.
St. Stephen’s is Grades 9–12 only, day and boarding, on the Aventine. Italy’s first IB school, the portrait says. An American diploma plus IB. Not a kindergarten. Time Via Aventina at 9 p.m. if you are buying a bed.
St George’s is a British through-school from about 3 to 18. La Storta on the Via Cassia, and a junior hall near the Vatican. IB and A-Levels. Lunch inside the annual fee. Time the Cassia before you fall in love with the junior site.
AOSR is an American day campus on Via Cassia 811 since 1947. AP and IB. A family capital fee sits on the 2026–27 table. North Rome, not the Forum.
Chateaubriand is French AEFE. Three sites — Strohl-Fern in Villa Borghese, Malpighi, Patrizi near Porta Pia. Baccalauréat, not IB. Parents must live in Italy. Time both neighbourhoods.
They share a city and almost no Monday. Walk at least two, then a liceo courtyard.
If you might stay, an English diploma is not automatically the kindest paper. A liceo classico, a paritaria that still issues the maturità — those are official mornings. Families looking at St George’s often also walk an Italian door in the same week.
The language of the yard is the test. A child can thrive in English at 9 a.m. and still be lonely at 11 if the park is speaking Roman.
Milan is not a suburb of Rome. Varese is a European School, not a Roman American campus. Duino is sixteen, not four.
Ask which paper this child will hold — IB, A-Levels, AP, Bac, or maturità. Ask St. Stephen’s whether you are buying day or a bed. Ask Chateaubriand which of the three gates this child stands in. Time the Aventine, La Storta and the Cassia on the same Tuesday.
The city hub is the short map. The four portraits are the long ones.
Friendly orientation, not formal admissions advice. Always confirm dates with the school.
A not-for-profit American day campus on Via Cassia since 1947. The 2026–27 table prints a family capital fee and annual bands through Grade 12. Time the Cassia, not the Forum.
RomeA French AEFE through-school on three Roman sites, not an English-medium international. The 2026–27 decision prints the same tuition for every nationality. Time Villa Borghese and Porta Pia, not the Forum.
RomeA not-for-profit British day school, two sites, lunch inside the annual fee. The 2026–27 table prints parent and employer columns. Time the Via Cassia before you fall in love with a junior hall near the Vatican.
RomeThis is a four-year high school at the foot of the Aventine, not a through-school with a kindergarten. Day and boarding share the same classroom. The official site is sssrome.it. Tuition for 2026/27 is printed in euros for both lives.
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minYou do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minTuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.
12 minSkip the question about last year’s average. Ask the ones that make a teacher’s face change. Then look at the corridor while they answer.