← Back to the rankingIstituto di Istruzione Superiore Pacinotti Archimede
Rome, Italy · est. 2012 · State
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Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Pacinotti Archimede is a state upper secondary school in Rome, created in the 2012-2013 school year by merging two long-established local schools: Liceo Scientifico Archimede and the Antonio Pacinotti technical institute and applied sciences liceo. On average 1720 students attend in 75 classes across three buildings, with about 200 teachers. There are five scientific liceo tracks (traditional, Cambridge, economics, applied sciences, sports) and a technical institute with computing, telecommunications, video games, digital communication and electronics. Teaching is in Italian and ends with the esame di Stato. In the Liceo Scientifico opzione Cambridge International track the school teaches Cambridge programmes in mathematics, physics, English and geography partly in English, together with native-speaker teachers; students take Cambridge IGCSE exams between years 2 and 4, the C1 Advanced exam in year 4, and Cambridge biology is optional after school.
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. Fees for Cambridge English exams are collected separately by notice; the site gives no amounts for IGCSE exams or any family contribution.
Admissions Enrolment in the first year follows the state procedure on the Unica platform in January. Places in the Cambridge International track are limited: if applications exceed places the school ranks applicants - 70% weight for the average grade in English, mathematics, science and geography at the end of year 2 of middle school, 20% for a Cambridge or Trinity English certificate (A2, B1, B2), 10% for study abroad (study holidays do not count); ties are settled by lot. Documents are sent by email by 14:00 on the last day of enrolment. One or two places are reserved for students with disabilities. The sports liceo and the video game technical option also have limited intake. The school says students with foreign citizenship are few, more of them in the technical institute, and most are second or third generation.
Stages and year groups Liceo scientifico: tradizionale, opzione Cambridge International, economico (one hour of statistics, financial mathematics, economics, law and business English), scienze applicate, sportivo; istituto tecnico: informatica e telecomunicazioni (with video game and digital communication options), elettronica ed elettrotecnica (with an energy and environment option). All tracks are five years ending with the esame di Stato. Cambridge: in the Cambridge International track, Cambridge programmes in mathematics, physics, English and geography, IGCSE exams between years 2 and 4, C1 Advanced in year 4, Cambridge biology optional after school; the timetable has 30-31 hours a week, English 5 hours in years 1-2 and 4 hours in years 3-4, some hours taught only by the native-speaker teacher and some jointly with the Italian teacher.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. The Cambridge International science liceo teaches Mathematics, Physics, English and Geography to Cambridge syllabuses with IGCSE exams in years 2-4; Biology is an optional after-school extra.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Olympiads · Piano Lauree Scientifiche (university science programme) · Cisco CCNA ITN Certification · Python Course · ICARO Project with ROBOTICS 3D · Team Pacinotti Videogames · The Students' Newspaper · Readers' Circle · Sconcerto (end-of-year concert) · School Sports Championships · Afternoon Badminton Club · Foreign-Language Theatre Performances · New ICDL
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
The school sends students to a summer mathematics school at La Sapienza university, runs sports field camps and, in the Cambridge track, short stays in English-speaking countries and language placements.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers200
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
About 200 teachers of theory and practical subjects, permanent and temporary, and 8 lab technicians. The school describes a stable teaching staff with an average age of about 50 and says many hold language and computing certificates. In the Cambridge track some lessons are taught by native English-speaking teachers.
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 policynot stated on the website
The school has an inclusion coordinator, a coordinator for students with learning disorders and specialists supporting autonomy and communication; there is a dedicated lab for students with disabilities.
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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 data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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