Smiling International School is accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education and it is also an International Baccalaureate® World School authorised to offer the IB Diploma Programme.

At Smiling International School, we aim to nurture, inspire and educate all children to achieve their personal best. Our goal is to provide our students with a broad, creative and well-balanced educational experience which prepares them to be citizens of the world.

Our School is based on two campuses, both in the center of Ferrara, a beautiful town in the Emilia Romagna region. The Porta Mare Campus hosts the Early Years (2-5 years old) and the first 3 years of the Primary School. The students of the last two years of Primary School, the Secondary School, the High Schools and the IB Diploma Programme are in the Ercole I D’Este campus.

Smiling International School is a "Scuola Paritaria'' in Ferrara: we teach the Italian ministerial curriculum in English through modern, interdisciplinary teaching methods.
Our teachers prepare students (6-18 years old) for CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Language) certification in English (Cambridge), Spanish (DELE) and Chinese (HSK) as an integral part of the various curricula.
Smiling International School offers two Secondary School pathways:
- the 4-year Linguistic High School, which combines language studies with topical subjects such as Business, Critical Thinking, Mathematics and Physics;
- the 4-year High School of Technology, the new frontier for highly specialised studies in technology, computer science and STEM subjects
Smiling International School also offers the IB Diploma Programme.