← Back to the rankingIstituto di Istruzione Superiore "Curie - Sraffa"
Milan, Italy · est. 1974 · State
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Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "Marie Curie - Piero Sraffa" is a state upper secondary school in north-western Milan, next to the Parco delle Cave. It was formed in 2012-2013 by merging the technical institute ITIS "Marie Curie", opened in 1974 as Milan's tenth technical institute, and the commercial institute ITC "Piero Sraffa", opened in 1981-1982; both have been in the via Fratelli Zoia building since 1981. Today it offers a liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate and technical courses in chemistry (chemistry and materials, health biotechnology), IT, administration, finance and marketing, and tourism. The school is Cambridge-accredited: in the IGCSE sections of the liceo and of health biotechnology three subjects are taught in English with native speakers, the rest in Italian. In 2026 its students won the national technical institutes competition in chemistry and materials.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees State school: tuition is free, as in all scuole statali.
Admissions The school is state-run: first-year enrolment is through the national Iscrizioni online system. If there are more applications than places, the school council ranks them by the lower secondary school's guidance recommendation, conduct mark, distance from home and siblings at the school. The school has published separate admission criteria for the Cambridge sections. The school admits foreign students: the area has many immigrant families, including recent arrivals, and every year Italian as a second language courses at different levels are run for students with limited Italian.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (scuola secondaria di secondo grado). Five-year courses ending with the esame di Stato: liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate; istituto tecnico - Chimica Materiali e Biotecnologie (Chimica e Materiali, Biotecnologie Sanitarie), Informatica, Amministrazione Finanza e Marketing, Turismo (with Spanish). Cambridge IGCSE sections: in the applied sciences liceo, English as a Second Language (3 hours plus a native-speaker hour in years 1-3), Mathematics and Physics (plus a native-speaker hour in years 1-2) are taught in English; in health biotechnology, English as a Second Language, Chemistry and Biology. Lessons take place during normal hours, in English with Italian support; IGCSE exams are optional, held at the school in two sessions a year (May-June and October-November), and students choose the Core or Extended level.
Address Via Fratelli Zoia 130, 20153 Milano
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. IGCSE sections: English as a Second Language, Mathematics and Physics in the applied sciences liceo; English as a Second Language, Chemistry and Biology in health biotechnology. Exams are optional.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: One building on the north-western edge of Milan, surrounded by the Parco delle Cave; opposite the school is the swimming pool of the Kennedy sports centre. According to the PTOF 2025-2028: 19 internet-connected labs - three chemistry, five computer, five science, three electronics, a physics lab, a language lab and a drawing room; traditional and digital libraries, an assembly hall, a projection room, a theatre, two gyms, a five-a-side pitch, an outdoor basketball and volleyball court, a running track and a canteen with its own kitchen. It is a day school with no boarding.
Clubs and activities: CSS - School Sports Centre · Chemistry Games · Italian Geography Championships · National Technical Institutes Competition - Chemistry and Materials · MiaFotoBio Photo Contest · Cambridge Preparation Centre - B1, B2, C1
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers159
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
According to the PTOF 2025-2028 the school has 159 teachers and 38 technical and administrative staff. IGCSE courses are taught by Italian teachers with good English and by native speakers, together or separately; the CVs of all course teachers have been approved by Cambridge.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
An information and counselling centre runs a teacher-led listening service, a psychologist's service by appointment and a separate counselling service; the school has an anti-bullying and cyberbullying section and an inclusion plan.
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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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 "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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