← Back to the rankingI.I.S. "Carducci" - Liceo Classico e Artistico
Cassino, Italy · est. 1824 · State
Illustration · Cassino
I.I.S. «Carducci» is a state upper secondary school in Cassino, in the province of Frosinone, created in 2018 from two of the town's old licei. Liceo Classico «G. Carducci» was founded on 28 September 1824 at the wish of Ferdinand I of Bourbon; after the destruction of Cassino in the Second World War it temporarily moved to Alatri and returned to the town at the end of 1945. The Liceo Artistico opened in 1970 as a branch of the Naples Academy of Fine Arts and since 2020-2021 has borne the name of the painter Vittorio Miele. The liceo classico offers a traditional track, a biomedical option, the «Cicerone» course with economics and law, and a Cambridge International course: some subjects, Biology and Latin, are taught in English with a native-speaker teacher, and at the end students receive the Cambridge IGCSE certificate. The art liceo offers figurative arts, architecture, graphics, interior design and stage design. About 720 teenagers aged 14-19 attend; the main language of instruction is Italian.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. On enrolment in year 1 families pay a voluntary contribution (contributo volontario) of 60 EUR through Pago in Rete; Cambridge course students instead pay a separate contribution, the amount of which the school announces at the start of lessons.
Admissions Admission to first-year classes is through the national procedure on the UNICA portal. To complete enrolment, families bring to the office at via Lombardia 1 or email parents' contacts for the Pago in Rete system, a birth declaration, the lower secondary diploma with the competence certificate and the receipt for the voluntary contribution; the school publishes the first-year class lists at the end of August and assigns groups to sections by draw. The Cambridge course is chosen when enrolling in the liceo classico; in year 2 students formally choose a third subject taught in English. On the pages read, the school does not describe conditions for foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 liceo classico, 1-5 liceo artistico. Italian state upper secondary curriculum, five years ending with the esame di Stato (maturità). Liceo classico: a traditional track, a biomedical option (Biologia con curvatura biomedica), the «Cicerone» course with economics and law subjects, and the Cambridge International course. Liceo artistico «Vittorio Miele»: arti figurative (sculpture and painting option), architettura e ambiente, grafica, design dell'arredamento, scenografia. The Cambridge course in selected liceo classico classes lasts four years: Biology and Latin are taught in English using CLIL with a native-speaker teacher during timetabled hours, and from year 2 students choose a third subject in English; in years 1-2 one hour of another subject in English is added outside the timetable, and in cycle 2 one hour of English; the outcome is the Cambridge IGCSE certificate. In 2026-2027 the course runs in classes 1B, 1D, 1E, 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D. Students of both licei also take the PET and FIRST language exams; the Cambridge course includes short study trips to the UK, to Cambridge and Canterbury.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. A four-year Cambridge course in selected classical liceo classes teaches Biology and Latin in English with a native speaker during school hours, adds a third subject from year 2 and leads to IGCSE.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The main building is on via Lombardia in Cassino, housing the liceo classico and the school office; it has the Rotary hall on the first floor and the «Liceo Carducci» school library, linked to the provincial library network. The Liceo artistico «Vittorio Miele» works on a separate site. Lessons run from 8:00 to 14:00.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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