IIS Publio Elio Adriano is a state upper secondary school in Tivoli near Rome with two licei: a liceo classico and a liceo artistico. The school calls the liceo classico (historically the Amedeo di Savoia liceo ginnasio) the oldest school in Tivoli. Since the 2017/2018 school year the school has been a Cambridge International centre, and since 2019 the liceo classico has had a separate Cambridge track: Biology and Geography are partly taught in English, an extra English hour with a native speaker is added, and students sit IGCSE exams in Latin, Mathematics and English as a Second Language. There is also the AUREUS track with extended art history, part of it taught in English. The liceo artistico offers fine arts, graphics, audiovisual and multimedia, design and jewellery. About 950 students attend: 514 in the liceo classico and 436 in the liceo artistico. Students come from Tivoli, neighbouring towns, parts of Abruzzo and the Rome outskirts.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees This is a state school and tuition is free. On enrolment in the first year for 2026/2027 families pay a voluntary contribution of 80 EUR (school council decision of 2023), which is tax-deductible.
Admissions The school admits students who have completed lower secondary school. To enrol in the first year, families send the lower secondary exam certificate with the final mark, the competence certificate and INVALSI results, the child's and parents' documents, a consent to publish images and the religion choice; a voluntary contribution is paid separately. The school says that in the liceo artistico the share of students without Italian citizenship matches the regional average, while in the liceo classico it is low. The Cambridge course runs entry tests; the school does not set out admission conditions for the track.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (liceo). A five-year liceo classico (tracks: standard, Cambridge and AUREUS) and a five-year liceo artistico (two-year common course, then arti figurative, grafica, audiovisivo e multimediale, design including metals, jewellery and coral). The Cambridge course has run in the liceo classico since 2019, in the curriculum from the first year: according to the PTOF, the Cambridge track has one hour of Biology and one hour of Geography in English and an extra English hour with a native-speaker teacher. Exams: at the end of the second year IGCSE Latin and Cambridge English FCE (B2), at the end of the second or third year IGCSE Mathematics and IGCSE English as a Second Language, and in the fifth year students can take Cambridge English CAE (C1). The school has been a Cambridge International centre since the 2017/2018 school year.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE.
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
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: Two buildings in Tivoli: via Petrocchi houses the liceo classico, some liceo artistico two-year common course classes and the administration; via S. Agnese houses the remaining liceo artistico classes. The school has two indoor gyms, two libraries, an assembly hall and 23 lab rooms; the liceo artistico has studios for fine arts, drawing, graphics, photography, sculpture, audiovisual work, design and jewellery, plus a STEM lab. The via Petrocchi building is next to the COTRAL bus terminus and the via S. Agnese building a few hundred metres from the railway station; transport is provided for students with disabilities.
Clubs and activities: Centro Sportivo Scolastico · Certamen Ciceronianum · Potenziamento matematico · Corso di mosaico · Gestire un sito UNESCO · Campioni di vita · Erasmus+
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: CVs of Cambridge course teachers approved by Cambridge International
The Cambridge course is taught by Italian teachers and native English-speaking teachers, separately or together in class; the school says the CVs of all course teachers were reviewed and approved by Cambridge. A course coordinator handles contact with Cambridge International, entry tests and exams.
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
A psychological support service (sportello d'ascolto) is available. In its improvement plan for 2025-2028 the school aims to set aside a room for psychological support, adopt a bullying and cyberbullying prevention protocol and ensure students' physical safety. Students with special needs have inclusion programmes and one-to-one mentoring.
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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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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