Convitto Nazionale Maria Luigia

Convitto Nazionale

state boardingschool

pupils from all overItaly and Europe can choose to haveaccommodationsand tutoring withinpremises

The vast majority of our students live in Parma and sorroundings with their families

Maria Luigia

Second wife of Napoleon

Former Empress of the French

Duchess of Parma from1814 to 1847

Unified under her nametwo major educational institutions of the city

Collegio dei Nobili

Collegio Lalatta

“Boarders”

Convitto Maria Luigia provides lodgingaccommodation for nearly 70 boys and girls in their high school years

Many attend one of the associated schools

A small fraction attends other schools in Parma

Special boarders

Since 2009 Convitto Maria Luigia isresidence of one of the four Italian Rugby Academies

30 boys in their third or fourth year of high school are hosted asboarders and attendschools in the Convitto

Schools associated to the Convitto

all orders of schools under the same roof

• primary school

• first grade secondaryschool

• second grade secondaryschool

Half-boarding

Families can choose half-boarding regime

After school time kids have lunch together withsome of their teachers and in the afternooncan attend extra classes or study and do theirhomework under the supervision of tutors

Primary school

Primary: five years

school time:

families can choose between 24, 27 or 30 hours per week

half-boarding time:

until 5 pm (with extra english classes)

First grade secondary school

First grade: three years

school time:

30 hours per week

half-boarding time:

until 5 pm (with extra musical instrumentclasses)

Second grade secondary school

High school system in Italy

recently reformed (first year now)school mandatory up to the age of 15 (usuallytwo years after first grade)choice between

• lyceum (6 different branches)

• technical institutes (11 different branches)

• vocational institutes (6 different branches)

Licei in the Convitto Maria Luigia

Liceo scientifico

Scientific gymnasium

five years

27 -31 hours per week

subjects: Italian, Latin, English, art, history, philosophy, maths, science, physics

only a small number of foreing students, usuallyimmigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa living with their families

Liceo classico

Gymnasium

five years

27-31 hours per week

subjects: Italian, Latin, ancient Greek, English, art, history, philosophy, maths, science, physics

no foreing students

Liceo europeo

European lyceum

five years38-42 hours per weeksubjects:

Italian, Latin and ancient Greek, English, a secondeuropean language, economics, law, politicalgeography, art, history, philosophy, maths, science, physics

a significant number of foreign students fromEastern Europe as boarders

Our population

100

88261europeo

classico

scientifico

Italy vs. rest of the world

416

26

ITALY

REST OF THE WORLD

Where do foreign students come from?

1 2

2

3

2

16

12

11 1 1 FRANCE

ALBANIA

MOLDOVA

ROMANIA

BELARUS

LITHUANIA

TUNISIA

GHANA

NIGERIA

EGYPT

No matter where they came fromthey can go far