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CCI The Renaissance School:
CCI The Renaissance School (CCI Lanciano) in Lanciano, in central Italy on the Adriatic coast, is a co-educational, boarding college, and is Canada's only high school in Italy. Offering grades 10 -12 (high school graduation), we unite the advantages of a Canadian education with the sophistication of private schools in Europe. Students may enroll for a single semester or for up to three academic years (two semesters / year). All students board within our own residences in this charming, safe medieval city.

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CCI has become a unique source of highest quality English language education, preparing students for university entrance in the USA, UK, Canada and Europe. Graduates from CCI have earned acceptances and scholarships to major universities worldwide such as Queen's, McGill, Toronto, Victoria, Dalhousie, Alberta, Illinois, Southern California, Columbia, Dartmouth, Bond (Australia), among others.

Accreditation
CCI Lanciano is accredited by the Ontario Ministry of Education in Canada and we are members of the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the European Council of International Schools (ECIS).

Curriculum
Students follow a challenging university preparation academic curriculum, including Mathematics, Computers, Classical Civilization, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Social Science, English, Art and Drama. All courses are taught in English, except for Italian and French languages. The School offers high school grades 10 through graduation, and students may enroll for a single semester or for up to three academic years. Courses conform to the accreditation guidelines of the Ontario Ministry of Education and credits may be applied toward a high school diploma at institutions throughout North America and abroad.

Our Summer Academy during the month of July is one of Italy's finest summer boarding schools. The school's greatest advantage is that it allows students to experience a taste of CCI's first-class education and immerse themselves in Italy's rich historical and cultural landscape. Our summer boarding school's popularity grows year after year, reflecting the appeal of a summer education in one of the top private schools Italy can offer.

Why CCI & Italy?
In harmony with high-quality, accredited education abroad, students directly experience antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance and modern Italy, both formally, through regular organized trips with the school, and informally, through daily life in a modern town sensitively aware and conserving of its more than 3,000-year history. Entering students take introductory Italian, which they early recognize makes town life feasible, and soon, for many, pleasant and friendly.
CCI selects its professional teaching staff, who all possess the required teacher's qualifications, for strength of commitment to, and interest and previous training in, their subject areas. They are chosen also for strong teaching capability, devotion to students' needs and interests both in and outside of school hours, and their willingness to assist and lead the extracurricular life of the school. The overall teacher-to-student ratio of one-to-twelve ensures extensive individual attention is available for every student.

Classroom and book learning, upon which the School places the highest value, is dramatically enhanced when students are learning in the very places where the events being studied happened. Through the many supervised regular trips which signify the importance of travel as a formal part of CCI education, students walk in the same streets, fields, and buildings as the pre-Etruscans; Pompeiians and Romans; emperors and popes; Raphael and Michelangelo.Students experience supervised day-trips to Rome and historic hill towns such as Chieti, L'Aquila and Celano. Each CCI semester features two major overnight trips (supervised). First is Florence, the greatest Renaissance museum and art city of Italy. CCI students also visit Naples, Pompeii, Venice.

Lanciano is a small, medieval-yet-modern town of 40,000 inhabitants, beautifully situated close to the coast of the Adriatic Sea, in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. Located about 15 minutes' drive to the sand or stone beaches of the Adriatic Sea and about a two hour drive from Rome. Lanciano has excellent train and bus service to all of Italy and Europe. It is a well-serviced town nestled between the ocean and the Apennine Mountains and provides a safe friendly, and charming environment for students to live and learn in.