The ranking holds 5 schools with an international accreditation or an authorised programme. The British Cambridge route, IGCSE and A-Level, at 5.
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1 of the 5 schools in the ranking is private. The other 4 are state schools, set out below. The type of school does not affect the score: private and state schools sit in one list and are scored by the same formula, and only verifiable data moves the number.
4 schools in Pavia teach an international programme with no tuition fee: Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano, Liceo Scientifico Statale Niccolò Copernico, Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Alessandro Volta, Istituto Magistrale Statale Adelaide Cairoli. On value for money such schools get the top score, because they sit outside the price range altogether.
4 schools with an international accreditation are funded by the state: Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano, Liceo Scientifico Statale Niccolò Copernico, Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Alessandro Volta, Istituto Magistrale Statale Adelaide Cairoli. Admission to these schools is usually competitive, and tuition is free or markedly cheaper than at a private school. In the ranking they stand alongside private schools and are scored on the same nine criteria.
The British Cambridge programme - IGCSE and A-Level - is taught at 5 schools in Pavia: Scuola Internazionale di Pavia, Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano, Liceo Scientifico Statale Niccolò Copernico, Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Alessandro Volta, Istituto Magistrale Statale Adelaide Cairoli.
A facility counts only when the school names it outright on its own site: a modern campus is not a swimming pool. School transport: 1 school.
Comparing schools on a single feature is useless: the most expensive is not the best, and a famous name says nothing about what is backed by documents. The score is therefore built from nine criteria with different weights - from academic programmes and accreditation to facilities, clubs and fees relative to other schools in the country.
A criterion counts towards the score only when there is verifiable data behind it. That is why every score says how many of the nine criteria were counted: at schools in Pavia that is 7.8 out of 9 on average. A school with a detailed site and a school with no site cannot earn an equally reliable score, and that is shown rather than hidden.
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Scuola Internazionale di Pavia comes first with 77.1 points out of 100, counted from 7 of the 9 criteria. Next come Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano (74.4) and Liceo Scientifico Statale Niccolò Copernico (74.2). The score is built from data anyone can check: accreditations found in official registers, programmes, facilities and published fees. A place in the ranking is not for sale.
The ranking holds 5 schools: 1 private and 4 state (Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano, Liceo Scientifico Statale Niccolò Copernico, Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Alessandro Volta, Istituto Magistrale Statale Adelaide Cairoli). Private and state schools go into the ranking on equal terms.
IGCSE and A-Level are offered by 5 schools: Scuola Internazionale di Pavia, Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano, Liceo Scientifico Statale Niccolò Copernico, Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Alessandro Volta, Istituto Magistrale Statale Adelaide Cairoli.
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The score of every school adds up from nine criteria with different weights: academic programmes, accreditation, facilities, clubs, the fee against other schools in the country, reviews, university destinations, safety and teachers. A criterion counts only when there is data behind it that can be checked, so every score says how many of the nine were counted. Right now that is 7.8 out of 9 on average. We do not use reviews from maps or directories.