ITI P. Hensemberger is a state technical institute and science lyceum in Monza, the first technical institute in today's province of Monza and Brianza. It opened in 1942 as a branch of the Feltrinelli institute in Milan and became independent in 1946; all the province's technical institutes later grew out of it. Today it offers five technical tracks in the technology sector (mechanics and mechatronics, electronics and electrical engineering, IT and telecommunications, health biotechnology) and a scientific lyceum with the applied sciences option, with robotics, biomedical and cybersecurity profiles. About 1350 students attend the day school and about 200 adults the evening courses. Lessons are taught in Italian. Since 2017-2018 the school has run an extracurricular Cambridge IGCSE course: after an entrance test, 30 first-year students from all tracks study English as a Second Language, Geography and Environmental Management in English for two years and sit IGCSE exams at the school. The school is a Cisco academy and an ICDL test centre and takes part in Erasmus+.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees It is a state school and tuition is free. The Cambridge IGCSE course and exam fees are paid by families; no amount is given, and the school says it changes every year depending on the number of participants.
Admissions Enrolment in year 1 follows the state online procedure, for any technical track or the scientific lyceum; the school holds open days with online booking. For the Cambridge IGCSE course families state their interest on enrolling in year 1; all candidates take an English test at the end of May and the top 30 are admitted on a ranking that counts the test, English certificates at A2-B1 or above, the average mark and the marks in English, Italian, mathematics and behaviour in the first term of year 3 of middle school, with a draw in case of a tie. The school says it has long experience of integrating foreign students: there are Italian language courses for them, and through international exchange programmes the school hosts students from other countries.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year upper secondary school following the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Istituto tecnico settore tecnologico: a common two-year course, then Meccanica, Meccatronica ed Energia (since 2023-2024 electrical engineering has a robotics and automation profile), Elettronica ed Elettrotecnica, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni (IT with a cybersecurity profile since 2024-2025, and telecommunications), Chimica, Materiali e Biotecnologie (health biotechnology); liceo scientifico, opzione scienze applicate, with a biomedical profile in years 3-5 since 2019-2020 and a robotics profile since 2023-2024. Cambridge: an extracurricular IGCSE course from year 1 for students of all tracks - English as a Second Language, Geography, Environmental Management, 60 hours a year per subject, with one or two three-hour afternoon sessions a week; the first two-year cycle with IGCSE exams runs, the second cycle with A Level depends on enrolment. IGCSE exams are held at the school in the May-June and October-November sessions.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. A fee-paying after-school course for 30 first-years selected by test covers IGCSE ESL, Geography and Environmental Management in English, examined at school.
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
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Clubs and activities: HensDebate · School Sports Centre · Informatics Olympiads · Physics Olympiads · School Newspaper · English Conversation Courses
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: Cambridge course teachers have at least C1 English or are native speakers; language course teachers hold CELTA or DELTA.
The Cambridge course is taught by teachers with at least C1 English certification or native speakers selected by public call; the language courses are taught by native or bilingual teachers with CELTA or DELTA qualifications. The school does not publish the number of 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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a psychological counselling service with a school psychologist; it runs anti-bullying and anti-cyberbullying activities for students, parents and teachers, a welcome programme for first-year students and mentoring. The building has no architectural barriers.
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 data65 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.
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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Monza, Italy · est. 1942 · State