← Back to the rankingIstituto Tecnico Industriale Statale G. Cardano
Pavia, Italy · est. 1962 · State
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ITIS G. Cardano is a large state technical institute in Pavia, opened in 1962 to train technicians for the region's industry; in 1994 a liceo was added, today the Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate. Technical tracks: Chimica, Materiali e Biotecnologie, Elettronica ed Elettrotecnica, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Meccanica, Meccatronica ed Energia. In 2025-2026 there are 1845 students in 83 classes and 199 teachers. Since 2018 the school has been a Cambridge International School: in some liceo sections computing is taught in English to the IGCSE syllabus alongside the Italian programme, and one hour of English a week is with a native speaker. Teaching is in Italian.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Class size
on average 22 students per class
About the fees The school is a state school and charges no tuition. The site gives no extra charge for the Cambridge section or IGCSE exams.
Admissions Enrolment in grade 1 is in January through the national Iscrizioni online procedure; the middle school guidance opinion is required. If oversubscribed, the opinion is considered and priority goes to residents of the province of Pavia, to siblings of current students and to children from neighbouring provinces whose parents work in Pavia. If Cambridge International classes are oversubscribed, an English aptitude test follows these criteria and the grade 2 middle school report may be requested. Foreign students and children with limited Italian get Italian courses, mediators and a dedicated coordinator.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 istituto tecnico, 1-5 liceo. Istituto tecnico tecnologico, five years with the esame di Stato: Chimica, Materiali e Biotecnologie; Elettronica ed Elettrotecnica; Informatica e Telecomunicazioni; Meccanica, Meccatronica ed Energia. Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate (5 years, esame di Stato) with extra physics. Cambridge sections in the liceo: Cambridge IGCSE computing - 2 hours a week in grades 1-4 in English with a teacher holding a language certificate, alongside the Italian programme; English 3 hours a week, 1 of them with a native speaker; optional English courses for B1 (grades 1-2) and B2 (grades 3-4) certificates. An A Level computing line in the ITIS ran from 2018 and has taken no new students since 2021-2022.
Address Via Verdi 19, 27100 Pavia
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. Selected applied-science liceo sections study Computer Science on the IGCSE syllabus in English for 2 hours a week in years 1-4, plus an hour of English with a native speaker.
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 hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: A main building and a branch site, both with lifts and ramps: more than 30 labs (chemistry, electronics and electrical engineering, telecommunications, mechanics, computing and others), computers, interactive whiteboards and screens in every classroom and lab; a 1600 square metre gym and a second gym, a five-a-side football pitch, a classic and a digital library, an assembly hall, a projection room and a bar.
Clubs and activities: Open Gym · School Newspaper · PET and FIRST Language Certifications · Cisco and AWS Certifications · Academic Games and Competitions · Erasmus · Global Teaching Lab · Project Your Life
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers199
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The PTOF 2025-2028 lists 199 teachers. In the Cambridge section computing in English is taught by a teacher with a language certificate, and one hour of English a week by a native speaker.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
·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
Both buildings have lifts and ramps. The site has an anti-bullying section; a dedicated coordinator handles inclusion of students with special needs and foreign students and the work of mediators; safety rules apply to gyms and labs.
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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 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.
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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