← Back to the rankingIstituto Statale di Istruzione Superiore «Piero Gobetti - Alessandro Volta»
Bagno A Ripoli, Italy · est. 2012 · State
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The Istituto Statale di Istruzione Superiore «Piero Gobetti - Alessandro Volta» is a public upper secondary school in Bagno a Ripoli near Florence. Since the 2012-2013 school year it has combined two schools: the Gobetti liceo scientifico, founded in the early 1970s at Villa di Rusciano in Florence and moved to Bagno a Ripoli in 1997, and the Volta institute, opened in 1984. Today it runs the liceo scientifico (standard, with extra astronomy in partnership with the Arcetri observatory and the University of Florence, and with an art and architecture course), the scientifico with the scienze applicate option, a sports liceo scientifico, the liceo linguistico, including an Italian-English option with Cambridge IGCSE courses since 2017-2018, and technical tracks in administration, finance and marketing and in IT and telecommunications. The liceo has 763 students in 36 classes and the technical institute 929 students in 47 classes. Teaching is in Italian; the liceo linguistico teaches three foreign languages, and the school has regular exchanges with partners in Europe, including Germany.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin
Class size
on average 21 students per class in the liceo and 20 in the technical institute
About the fees The school is public and tuition is free. Preparation for the IGCSE English examination in the liceo linguistico is part of the curriculum at no cost to families, apart from the examination registration fee.
Admissions Enrolment in year 1 takes place in January through the Ministry's online procedure (Iscrizioni online), linked from the track pages. On the pages read, the school does not describe separate selection for the Italian-English IGCSE option or rules for admitting foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (scuola secondaria di secondo grado), 83 classes. Five-year upper secondary school with the esame di Stato: Liceo Scientifico Ordinario (with extra astronomy or art and architecture), Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate, Liceo Scientifico a indirizzo Sportivo, Liceo Linguistico (English plus two of French, German, Spanish and Russian), Liceo Linguistico ad opzione Italo-Inglese; istituto tecnico - Amministrazione, Finanza e Marketing and Informatica e Telecomunicazioni. Cambridge course: in the Italian-English option of the liceo linguistico (since 2017-2018), preparation for IGCSE examinations in five subjects - English as a Second Language, Geography, Mathematics, Biology, History - runs within school hours over all five years; English hours are increased (5 a week in years 1-2 and 4 in years 3-5, one hour each co-taught with a native speaker) and hours of IGCSE subjects are increased; graduates receive the liceo diploma and IGCSE certificates. In the standard liceo linguistico, preparation for IGCSE English (as a first or second language) is part of the curriculum. There are no AS and A Level courses.
Address Via Roma 77/A, 50012 Bagno a Ripoli (FI)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. The Italian-English option of the language liceo prepares students for IGCSEs in ESL, Geography, Mathematics, Biology and History over five years; the regular language liceo covers IGCSE English.
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
✓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
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
In the Italian-English option some English lessons are co-taught with a native-speaker teacher. The astronomy and architecture courses are taught by school staff together with staff of the Arcetri observatory and the University of Florence.
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.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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