← Back to the rankingIstituto di Istruzione Superiore "G.A. Pischedda"
Bosa, Italy · est. 1962 · State
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I.I.S. G.A. Pischedda is a state upper secondary school (scuola secondaria di secondo grado) in the small town of Bosa in western Sardinia. Under one management it runs a liceo classico, a liceo scientifico, a liceo linguistico (English, Spanish and Chinese), a technical institute in economics and marketing with an information systems branch, and two vocational tracks: agriculture and hospitality and catering; there are also evening courses for adults. The liceo goes back to the royal gymnasium of 1859, the agricultural school was founded in 1892 on the bequest of Giovanni Antonio Pischedda, and the present institute, according to the school's timeline, was founded in 1962. The liceo classico and scientifico offer a Cambridge IGCSE course: English as a Second Language and Biology in English with native-speaker teachers, with Cambridge exams taken at the school. Other subjects are taught in Italian. 554 students attend in 34 classes; the school has a boarding house for students from other towns and a large training farm.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Spanish, Chinese, Latin
Class size
on average 16 students per class
About the fees A state school of the Ministry of Education (scuola statale): tuition is free. The website does not name a fee for the Cambridge course, a voluntary contribution or a boarding fee.
Admissions Enrolment in the first year follows the general state procedure: the school publishes a notice on enrolment for the 2026/2027 school year under the ministry's circular. The Cambridge IGCSE course is intended for liceo scientifico and liceo classico students. The boarding house admits the school's students from other towns who meet the requirements, for the whole school year. The website says nothing about selection for the Cambridge course or about admitting foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (scuola secondaria di secondo grado), 34 classes. Five-year Italian upper secondary programmes ending with the esame di Stato (maturità): liceo classico, liceo scientifico (with a three-year Biologia con curvatura biomedica strand in the classico and scientifico), liceo linguistico (English, Spanish, Chinese), technical institute Amministrazione, Finanza e Marketing and Sistemi Informativi Aziendali, vocational institutes in agriculture and in hospitality and catering; evening courses for adults. Cambridge IGCSE in the liceo classico and liceo scientifico: English as a Second Language 2 hours a week in years 1-4 and Biology 2 hours a week in years 2-4, with native-speaker teachers; exams are taken at the school. The course page names Science as the second subject, the timetable names Biology.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. In the classical and science licei: IGCSE English as a Second Language in years 1-4 and Biology in years 2-4, 2 hours a week each with native speakers; exams are held at the school.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
✓Boarding
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The main building on Viale Alghero houses the licei; the technical and vocational tracks are in the building on Via Lungo Temo, with a training kitchen, pastry kitchen, restaurant room and bar. The school has a boarding house (convitto) in the centre of Bosa for 57 students from other towns, with boys' and girls' sections, a day-boarding service with lunch, and a training farm in Santa Maria of about 483 hectares with workshops, machinery and two greenhouses. Chemistry, physics, science, IT and oenology labs, a library, an assembly hall, two gyms, an outdoor basketball and volleyball court, a canteen.
Clubs and activities: PEG - European Youth Parliament · Erasmus+ (exchanges and placements in Europe) · UNESCO · Biology with Biomedical Specialisation
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The Cambridge course is taught with native English-speaking teachers; the boarding house has educators who help with study after lessons.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The website has a section on bullying and cyberbullying; the school plan aims at a permanent pedagogical and psychological help desk and initiatives for students' psychological and physical wellbeing. In the boarding house students are supervised by educators after lessons.
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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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 "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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