International School of Europe

Open your mind to differences, beautiful school

Extremely overrated

I might be biased, but this is the best school you can find.

I studied there for 3 and a half years and I can proudly say that those 3 and a half years were a great expirence

An absolutely awful, overpriced, disorganized, and utterly mismanaged school. Does not live up to its price or international standards. Forget the international part of its name; this is an Italian school, just taught in English. If you are an expat, you will have a very hard time with this school as most of the communication between the school and the parents is in Italian, and occasionally badly translated to English. If you are looking for a truly international, high quality, and worthwhile private education, do not go here.

Its a really good school but sometimes they put all of the assesments in 1 week (meaning that a few weeks every semester we have too much hw or/and assesments)

Good school however overpriced. And disorganized. Lunch is getting worse and worse, some days even no lunch given just two panino with cheese in between. Definitely room of improvement on lunch.

Eternally grateful for my English lit teacher, who inspired me to pursue a career in academia. As for the rest.... the education could be improved. Over the three years I was enrolled here, I met too many incompetent and/or lazy teachers (e.g.: teachers teaching how to dance during math class, teachers stopping their teaching two weeks before the end of classes, teaching directly not teaching at all) for them to just have been exceptions. A lot of other teachers are competent and most importantly know the IB inside out, which is a real pro, since they managed to make it way less intense than it is advertised, whilst still leading to very good results and a very fair university preparation. However, considering the incredibly high fee, there should be more attention to the quality of the teaching overall. I graduated a few years ago, so I hope the education is better now (but back then, it was not completely satisfactory). Also, and most of all, the school should do something about the bullying. There was an incredibly elevated number of students in my year and beyond who lamented being outrighted disrespected. I had to endure a share of that as well, and am really gutted that no one ever did anything about it, considering how ubiquitous it was (it was pretty out into the open as well). I can't believe the school staff was so powerless as to not follow up on students patently humiliating and isolating other students. It was really disgusting, considering the school's alleged understanding of and striving for diversity/intercultural communication/what have you. Alternatively, the school could admit more scholarship students and less Milanese privileged élites. I sincerely hope that the Baranzate setting has inspired a reconsideration of what diversity and understanding actually are. I really want to believe this school is doing better now than it was when I was attending it.