The Convitto Nazionale Maria Luigia in Parma, Italy is a state boarding school that provides accommodations and education for students from Italy and across Europe. It has a history dating back to unification under Maria Luigia in the 19th century. Today it houses around 70 boarding students in secondary school, including an Italian rugby academy. Students have options for full boarding, half boarding after school, or living locally with family. The school associates different levels of primary and secondary programs on one campus, including the Liceo scientifico, Liceo classico, and European Liceo that attracts many foreign boarding students from across Europe and Africa.

1. Convitto Nazionale Maria Luigia

2. Convitto Nazionale
state boarding
school
pupils from all over
Italy and Europe can
choose to have
accommodations
and tutoring within
premises

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

4. Maria Luigia
Second wife of Napoleon
Former Empress of the
French
Duchess of Parma from
1814 to 1847
Unified under her name
two major educational
institutions of the city
Collegio dei Nobili
Collegio Lalatta

5. “Boarders”
Convitto Maria Luigia provides lodging
accommodation 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

6. Special boarders
Since 2009 Convitto
Maria Luigia is
residence of one of the
four Italian Rugby
Academies
30 boys in their third or
fourth year of high
school are hosted as
boarders and attend
schools in the Convitto

7. Schools associated to the Convitto
all orders of schools under
the same roof
• primary school
• first grade secondary
school
• second grade secondary
school

8. Half-boarding
Families can choose half-boarding regime
After school time kids have lunch together with
some of their teachers and in the afternoon
can attend extra classes or study and do their
homework under the supervision of tutors

9. Primary school

10. 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)

11. First grade secondary school

12. First grade: three years
school time:
30 hours per week
half-boarding time:
until 5 pm (with extra musical instrument
classes)

13. Second grade secondary school

14. High school system in Italy
recently reformed (first year now)
school mandatory up to the age of 15 (usually
two years after first grade)
choice between
• lyceum (6 different branches)
• technical institutes (11 different branches)
• vocational institutes (6 different branches)

15. Licei in the Convitto Maria Luigia

16. Liceo scientifico

17. 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, usually
immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa
living with their families

18. Liceo classico

19. Gymnasium
five years
27-31 hours per week
subjects: Italian, Latin, ancient Greek, English,
art, history, philosophy, maths, science,
physics
no foreing students

20. Liceo europeo

21. European lyceum
five years
38-42 hours per week
subjects:
Italian, Latin and ancient Greek, English, a second
european language, economics, law, political
geography, art, history, philosophy, maths,
science, physics
a significant number of foreign students from
Eastern Europe as boarders

22. Our population
100
europeo
261 88 classico
scientifico

23. Italy vs. rest of the world
26
ITALY
REST OF THE WORLD
416

24. Where do foreign students come
from?
1 1 1 1 2 FRANCE
1
2 2 ALBANIA
1 3 MOLDOVA
ROMANIA
2
BELARUS
LITHUANIA
TUNISIA
GHANA
NIGERIA
16 EGYPT

25. No matter where they came from
they can go far