Istituto Professionale “Francesco Datini” was born in 1963, and offered triennial vocational courses, at the end of ’70 were introduced also terminal two years that releases a diploma of state.
Nowadays, school offers five different possibilities : economy and marketing, turism, graphic advertising, reception, cooking and social services. 

The action of school are very large and concerne :

fight of school wastage, with projects that complete education with vocational training; in this field “Datini”has already organized initiatives that have been well awarded by the Regional Authorities. The reform of the Technical and Professional Education, in order to optimize the integration of the institutes with the demands of the territorial development and in this world the identifying of the pole-schools for a technical professional training, including the various exit levels, up to the higher technical formation. organizational and professional quality emprovement , carrying out projects for adopting quality models (CAF/BSC), with a shared action of teachers’ training, coordination and exchange of didactic experiences as innovating teaching tools (bench-learning) enhancing all excellences both among teachers and students. participation in external iniziatives, aimed to territorial promotion and development, that make possibile that the education quality gets positive effects on its members: building partnerships in european projects, managing cooperation iniziatives with “Misericordia di Firenze” on the theme “disability” and supporting developing countries, agreements, activities with territorial Authorities, etc.