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San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy · State
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Licei Giovanni da San Giovanni is a state liceo institute in San Giovanni Valdarno (province of Arezzo) with several tracks: scientific liceo (including the international STEM track and an environmental track), linguistic liceo, human sciences liceo, economic and social liceo and the Made in Italy liceo. In the 2024/25 school year it had 1392 students. Cambridge International (CAIE) teaching runs in two tracks. In the international STEM scientific liceo, Mathematics, Geography and Latin are also taught in English on IGCSE syllabuses in the first two years, and IGCSE Biology and AS Level English General Paper in years 4 and 5; the school lists the exams 0580 Mathematics, 0460 Geography, 0480 Latin, 0610 Biology and 8021 English General Paper. In the linguistic liceo a dedicated IGCSE section teaches Geography, Mathematics and Latin in English and prepares students for AS Level English in the upper years. In 2022-2025 students sat 430 IGCSE exams. The main language of instruction is Italian, with some subjects in English with native speaker teachers.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, German, Russian, Latin
About the fees Tuition at the state liceo is free.
Admissions Students enter the liceo after lower secondary school through the ministry's online enrolment; enrolment usually opens in November under an annual circular. The school does not state special requirements for the international liceo. According to the self-evaluation report the school has a committee for foreign students that handles their reception and inclusion.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (scuola secondaria di secondo grado). Five-year licei: scientific (including the Liceo Scientifico Internazionale STEM and a scientific liceo with an environmental and digital focus), linguistic, human sciences (including a music track), economic and social, and Made in Italy. The international STEM track adds an English hour every year, a History and Geography hour in years 1-2 and a Science hour in years 3-5; in the first two years Mathematics, Geography and Latin are also taught in English on CAIE syllabuses, Latin continues to year 3, and years 4-5 focus on Biology and English AS Level. Cambridge exams: IGCSE Mathematics 0580, Geography 0460, Latin 0480, Biology 0610 and AS Level English General Paper 8021. In the linguistic liceo the IGCSE section teaches Geography, Mathematics and Latin in English in the first two years and AS Level English in the upper years; according to the school two native speaker teachers work in these lessons and there are extra afternoon classes. The school does not say on the pages read when the course started.
Address Piazza Arduino Casprini 1, 52027 San Giovanni Valdarno (AR)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level.
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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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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
Exam results According to the school's report, in 2022-2025 students sat 430 IGCSE exams, most of them in Mathematics (152 exams) and Geography (121 exams). In the same years 642 language certificates were obtained and 57 students received the Italian-French ESABAC double diploma. The school does not publish grades.
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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The licei are on the school campus by the stadium in San Giovanni Valdarno, with good transport links to nearby towns. According to the self-evaluation report the school has flexible learning spaces and mobile labs, the Bibliovia mobile library and the Giardino di Epicuro outdoor space for theatre, philosophy and lab activities; it works with the Masaccio town library and the Palomar observatory. It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: Erasmus+ · Intercultura · Change the World Model UN New York · Doppio Diploma Italia-USA · ESABAC · Pianeta Galileo · Sezione Rondine · Rete RISVA in Musica
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 sizenot stated
English-medium lessons in the international scientific liceo are co-taught with a native speaker; the CAIE programme in the linguistic liceo uses two native speakers, one for humanities and one for STEM subjects.
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 operates; against cyberbullying the school runs the CyberHelp! project in a network supervised by the local health service's child neuropsychiatry unit; the school belongs to the regional network of health-promoting schools.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 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 data70 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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