Liceo Carmine Sylos is a state liceo in Bitonto near Bari, housed in the former 17th-century Santa Teresa convent. The school dates its educational history from 1818 and since 1876 has borne the name of mayor Carmine Sylos, who completed the founding of the ginnasio; a linguistic liceo was added in 2002, and later the human sciences and economico-sociale licei. Lessons are taught in Italian. The classical liceo has a Cambridge option: physics in English, an extra hour with a native speaker and Cambridge IGCSE exams in mathematics, physics and English literature, held at the school; there is also a biomedical course. The linguistic liceo teaches English, French and Spanish or German with conversation hours. The school takes part in Erasmus+ and eTwinning and subject olympiads, stages classical theatre and musicals, and is a preparation centre for Cambridge English language exams.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, German, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. For 2023-2024 enrolment the school asked for a voluntary contribution of 50 EUR for the educational programme; in grades 4 and 5 state fees of 21.17 EUR and 15.13 EUR are added. Cambridge IGCSE exams in physics and English literature cost families 98.05 EUR per exam in 2022-2023, while the school paid for the mathematics exam. A separate contribution is charged for the biomedical course.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the Ministry's online procedure; continuing students submit a form to the office with payment receipts. The school runs demonstration lessons and open days for lower secondary students. The Cambridge option and biomedical course are chosen within the classical liceo. The website says nothing about foreign students.
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 (Cambridge and biomedical options), liceo linguistico (English, French, Spanish or German, one hour a week with a native speaker; CLIL subjects from grades 3 and 4), liceo delle scienze umane and liceo economico-sociale. Cambridge option in the classical liceo: physics in English from grade 3, an extra hour with a native English speaker in grades 1-4; IGCSE exams - Mathematics in grade 3, Physics and Literature in English in grade 4, with after-school preparation. Data from the 2022 brochure and 2020-2023 circulars.
Address Piazza Carmine Sylos 6, 70032 Bitonto (BA)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. In the Cambridge option of the classical liceo, physics is taught in English with an extra hour with a native speaker, leading to IGCSE Maths in year 3 and Physics and Literature in English in year 4.
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.
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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
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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
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·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Classical Theatre · Musical · Languages Festival · Mathematics Olympiad · Italian Language Olympiad · Neuroscience Olympiad · Erasmus+ · eTwinning · School Newspaper · National Dante Competition
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
The Cambridge option has a native English-speaking teacher; IGCSE preparation is led by school teachers, two of whom have Cambridge training to invigilate exams; the linguistic liceo has conversation hours with native speakers. 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 data60 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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Bitonto, Italy · est. 1818 · State