← Back to the rankingIstituto di Istruzione Superiore Tulliano
Arpino, Italy · est. 1814 · State
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IIS Tulliano in Arpino (province of Frosinone) is a state upper secondary school that traces its history to the Collegio Tulliano, established by royal decree on 2 June 1814 in Cicero's home town. Since the 2000-2001 school year the liceo classico Tulliano has been combined with the Parravano technical institute of chemistry; a vocational institute joined in 2011, and a liceo scientifico has run since 2013. The liceo classico is a Cambridge International School: it joined the Cambridge network in 2017 and opened its first 2 Cambridge classes in the 2018/19 school year. Cambridge classes have 4 extra hours a week for the whole five-year cycle: 2 hours of English with a native speaker and 2 hours of another subject taught with a native speaker. Besides the Italian diploma, students sit IGCSE exams in Maths, Geography, ESL, Physics, Art & Photography, English Literature and Biology, and as a class they take Cambridge English exams from B1 to C2. There is a Shakespeare theatre workshop in English, an IELTS course and language trips to the UK.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free.
Admissions As a state school, students who agree to intensive English study and 4 extra hours a week enrol in the Cambridge section of the liceo classico. For students who do not speak Italian, the PTOF provides an Italian as a second language course from pre-A1 to B1-B2. The school does not publish other admission requirements.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5. Scuola secondaria di secondo grado, five years of study (from age 14 under the national system). Tracks: liceo classico (with the Cambridge International School section), liceo scientifico (since 2013), the Parravano technical institute of chemistry and materials, and a vocational institute (industrial production, dental technician). The Cambridge course has run in the liceo classico since the 2018/19 school year: 4 extra hours a week for the whole cycle, of which 2 hours of English as a second language with a native-speaker assistant and 2 hours of another subject taught with a native speaker; according to the PTOF 2022-2025 this is mathematics. IGCSE exams: Maths, Geography, ESL, Physics, Art & Photography, English Literature, Biology; the PTOF 2025-2028 describes a preparation course for IGCSE Biology (0610). In addition, the whole class takes Cambridge English B1 Preliminary, B2 First, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, and there is an IELTS Academic course.
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.
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
Campus: The institute operates in two buildings. According to the PTOF 2025-2028 there are physics, chemistry, computing, natural science and multimedia laboratories with internet, three gyms (two indoor and one outdoor) and a library. In the liceo every classroom has an interactive board, and it holds a historic book collection of 430 volumes, including rare 16th-century editions.
Clubs and activities: Acting Workshop · Shakespeare Workshop in English · Tulliano Rock Band · School Sports Games · Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas (Latin competition) · School Yearbook
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: teachers with language certificates of at least B1; native English-speaking assistants
IGCSE courses are taught by school teachers holding language certificates of at least B1; each Cambridge class has a native English-speaking assistant for 4 hours a week. According to the PTOF 2025-2028 the head has been at the school for more than five years, and most teachers of the licei and the technical track have more than five years of experience; there is a psychologist, an inclusion teacher and visiting experts.
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 policynot stated on the website
According to the PTOF 2025-2028 the school has a psychologist and an inclusion teacher, and runs a digital citizenship and health project.
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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 data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 "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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