Liceo Classico Statale Antonio Gramsci is a state liceo in Olbia (Sardinia) with two tracks: classical liceo (including a biomedical option) and linguistic liceo (with an ESABAC option for an Italian-French double diploma). It has 766 students in 40 classes. The school says it has been accredited as a Cambridge International School and has launched a Cambridge International course, for now in the first two years: additional subjects in English using British school methods, with the option of taking IGCSE. For the 2026/27 school year the school names the course subjects: Geography and English as a Second Language. In ESABAC, History in the upper years is taught in French. The main language of instruction is Italian.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English, French
Languages taught
Spanish, German, Latin
About the fees Tuition at the state liceo is free.
Admissions Students enrol through the ministry's online system after lower secondary school. The school describes the Cambridge course as a track for those who want to add stronger English to the classical or linguistic liceo; it states no separate entry requirements. According to the PTOF, 5,6% of the school's students are foreign.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (scuola secondaria di secondo grado), 40 classes. Classical liceo (including biomedical) and linguistic liceo with an ESABAC option: in years 3-5 French language and literature 4 hours and History in French 2 hours a week, plus an extra History hour with a native speaker. Cambridge course: the school says it is for now aimed at the first two years, that language is strengthened through additional subjects in English, and that in the 2026/27 school year the subjects will be Geography and English as Second Language; the course offers the option of taking IGCSE. The school does not give hours or timetable placement for these subjects.
Address Via Anglona 16, 07026 Olbia (SS)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. The school is introducing the Cambridge IGCSE course in Geography and ESL from the 2026/27 school year.
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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). 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
Campus: The liceo occupies a building on Via Anglona: regular classrooms, labs (four with internet access), an assembly hall, a gym and special rooms. The school itself says the building needs further work and lacks space for a library and special rooms. It is a day school.
Clubs and activities: MUNER New York · FermiMUN · Deutsch Plus · Doppio Diploma USA · Language Study Trips Abroad · Japanese Language and Culture Course · Certamen di Latino Antonietta Sanna · Cambridge English, DELF, DELE and Fit in Deutsch Preparation
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a section on preventing and combating bullying and cyberbullying.
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 data60 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.
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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