Liceo Carlo Botta is a state liceo in Ivrea, in the province of Turin, with a very long history: the school traces itself to a public school from the time of Emperor Lothair I (9th century), was long known as the Real Collegio, and since 1865 has borne the name of the historian Carlo Botta; its alumni include Costantino Nigra, Piero Martinetti and Francesco Ruffini. Today it is a classical liceo in several versions (communication, cultural heritage, arts and theatre, the maths and science CLAMS), a linguistic liceo with ESABAC, Confucio (Chinese) and Dostoevskij (Russian) tracks, and international linguistic and scientific licei with Spanish. Lessons are taught in Italian; in the international tracks part of history and geography is taught in Spanish. Outside lessons students can prepare for Cambridge IGCSE exams in several subjects and for Cambridge English, DELE, DELF, Goethe and HSK language exams, many of which are taken at the school.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian
Languages taught
English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Russian, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. The school gives no amount for family contributions or for the extracurricular Cambridge courses.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure; the school holds open days and runs a guidance portal for lower secondary students and their families. Cambridge IGCSE and language certificate courses are extracurricular and optional. The website says nothing about foreign students or special admission conditions for them.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Liceo classico: comunicazione, beni culturali, arti teatro musica danza and Classico Matematico Scientifico (CLAMS) with a scientific thinking lab and reinforced maths, Latin and ancient Greek. Liceo linguistico: ESABAC (dual diploma with the Baccalauréat; English 4+1 hours in grades 1 and 3, French 4-5 hours), Confucio (Chinese 4-5 hours a week, HSK exams), Dostoevskij (Russian, TRKI certificates); third language Spanish, French or German. Liceo linguistico internazionale and liceo scientifico internazionale a opzione spagnola: Spanish 7 hours in grade 1, history and geography in Spanish. Cambridge IGCSE is extracurricular, with exams at the school: in CLAMS in grades 4-5 English as a Second Language, Latin, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry; in the international scientific liceo in grades 4-5 Mathematics, Biology, Physics. The linguistic tracks offer Cambridge English language exams from PET to CAE and IELTS.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. IGCSE preparation runs after lessons in years 4-5: Latin, maths, physics, biology, chemistry and English in the CLAMS classical-science track, and maths, biology and physics in the international science liceo.
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
·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: #HASHTAG School Newspaper · Shakespeare Master Class · FAI Heritage Mornings · Qvaderni del Botta (school publication series) · Erasmus+ (international exchanges) · Cambridge English, DELE, DELF, Goethe and HSK Courses
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
There are subject departments including classical languages, natural sciences and foreign languages; lab sessions are run with a lab technician. The school does not publish staff numbers or qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data55 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.
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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