← Back to the rankingIstituto di Istruzione Superiore Enrico Mattei
San Lazzaro Di Savena, Italy · est. 1982 · State
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Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Enrico Mattei is a state upper secondary school in San Lazzaro di Savena near Bologna. It began as a branch of a technical commercial institute and became independent in 1982; in the 2003-2004 school year a liceo scientifico and a liceo delle scienze umane were added to the technical business track. Since the 2016-2017 school year the school has been Cambridge accredited and runs sections with Cambridge IGCSE courses: in the liceo scientifico all classes have enhanced English and IGCSE Physics and Biology, the technical business track has sections with IGCSE Economics, the liceo delle scienze umane sections with IGCSE Sociology, and the liceo economico sociale combines English with enhanced French. All Cambridge sections sit the B2 First exam, and C1 Advanced is also available. Cambridge subjects are partly taught in English with native speakers, the main language of instruction is Italian and the final qualification is the Italian maturità. In the 2023-2024 school year the school had 1446 students and 101 teachers.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free. For the 2026-2027 school year the school council set a voluntary contribution of 120 euro, which is tax deductible. Families of Cambridge students also pay annually for the native-speaker teacher, Cambridge exam registration and the B2 First exam.
Admissions Year 1 enrolment is through the national Iscrizioni online platform (Piattaforma Unica) with SPID, CIE, CNS or eIDAS login; the Cambridge option is chosen at enrolment and is considered confirmed unless the school says otherwise. To complete enrolment by 10 July families submit the middle school final exam mark and the INVALSI certificate in Italian and mathematics. Future year 1 students of Cambridge sections take an online English placement test; those who do not pass are offered a 10-hour catch-up course in early September. Parents of Cambridge students sign a commitment to pay for the native-speaker teacher and exams and accept that the Cambridge track cannot be changed during the course. For newly arrived foreign students there is a reception protocol and Italian as a second language courses; in the 2023-2024 school year foreign students made up about 3% in the liceo scientifico, 7% in the liceo delle scienze umane and 14% in the technical track.
Stages and year groups Tracks ending with the esame di Stato: liceo scientifico (only with the Cambridge and IGCSE course), liceo delle scienze umane (standard and Cambridge sections), liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale (Cambridge English and enhanced French), istituto tecnico economico (common two-year cycle, then amministrazione finanza e marketing, relazioni internazionali per il marketing, sistemi informativi aziendali; standard and Cambridge sections). Cambridge IGCSE: Physics in the liceo scientifico (years 1-2, 1 and 2 hours a week, one hour co-taught with the physics teacher, exam at the start of year 3), Biology (years 2-4, one hour each, exam at the end of year 4), Economics in the technical track, Sociology in the liceo delle scienze umane (one co-taught hour and two extracurricular hours with a native speaker, exam at the start of year 5). Cambridge English is an extra hour in years 1-3 of the licei with the B2 First exam at the end of year 3. Exams are taken at the school in May-June and October-November.
Address Via delle Rimembranze 26, 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (BO)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. The whole science liceo takes IGCSE Physics and Biology; Cambridge sections of the economics institute add IGCSE Economics, and those of the human sciences liceo IGCSE Sociology.
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.
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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
✓Laboratories
·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
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Debate · Simulimpresa (simulated company) · Digital marketing · Startup your life · Piano Lauree Scientifiche (science labs with the university) · School Sports Competitions · Introduction to Sports · Erasmus Plus · French with a Native Speaker (DELF)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers101
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has 101 teachers and 32 technical and administrative staff; about 80% of teachers have permanent contracts. Cambridge subjects are taught by school teachers together with native English speakers; there is a Cambridge exams officer.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a regulation against bullying and cyberbullying under Law 71/2017 focused on educational measures, a prevention team and monitoring. A school psychological support service operates, for which parents give consent at enrolment; there is an inclusion coordinator and a working group for students with special educational needs.
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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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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