F.S. Nitti" Institute was born on 1st September 2012, from the unification of "R. Merelli" Primary State School with State Middle School "G. Petrassi", following a Regional Directive. It is a State School which is supervised by the Ministry of Education. The Institute is composed of 3 school complexes: "F.S. Nitti" Middle School, where 22 classes, Presidency and Administrative Offices are, "Ferrante Aporti" and "Mengotti" Primary Schools with 26 classes. The students attending our school are around 1100. Our School operates in a middle-high cultural background, although varied and challenging. In fact, even if the social substratum is mainly composed of professionals, employees and tertiary sector workers, social-economic disadvantaged situations such as immigration, unemployment, social and cultural degradation, are quite common, both in the school area and in the close districts where the pupils mainly come from. The weekly timetable is supplied for 5 days, Monday to Friday. PRIMARY SCHOOL TIMETABLE: 27 or 40 hours per week, according to families needs. COMPULSORY SUBJECTS: Italian, Mathematics, Science, History, English, Social Studies, Geography, Music, P.E., Art, Hd./ Alternative Activities. Students attending school for 40 hours, have lunch at school and some lab activities in the afternoon. MIDDLE SCHOOL TIMETABLE: 30 hours per week. COMPULSORY SUBJECTS: Italian, English, Spanish or French, Mathematics, Science, Art, Music, Technology, History, Geography, P.E., R.E. Students with Special Needs (foreigner students, socially deprived or disabled students) are all well integrated in the school activities. Most of our students reach satisfactory learning levels and have great expectations for their further studies Actually, the analysis of the high school enrollment data proves that 90% of students pursue their studies in Classical or Scientific High Schools, 7%in Polytechnic Schools, 3% in Professional Institutes.School dropouts 0% The School Management takes advantage of all the opportunities offered by the School Autonomy Regulations and the Headmistress has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with some Leisure Time Associations to give families the opportunity to choose among different activities (Music, Foreign Language, Sport lessons) to be carried out at school, after the curriculum classes. All these activities are included in the School POF (the main school document) and competences achieved by thestudents are certified by the Associations themselves.