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Cagliari, Italy · est. 1865 · State
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Liceo Classico Statale G. M. Dettori is a state classical liceo in Cagliari. Its history goes back to a college of the mid-19th century; it took the name Dettori by royal decree in 1865 and since the 1950s has been in its building on via Cugia, where a new assembly hall opened in 2025. There are 722 students in 41 classes. The school describes itself as a recognised Cambridge International School: in the Cambridge sections three hours a week are added to the standard classical programme to teach the international programme in English, with IGCSE subjects chosen from mathematics, chemistry, biology, English as a second language, history and physics. The sections are part of the liceo's general timetable and organisation. Teaching is in Italian, the Cambridge subjects are in English with native-speaker teachers.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees A state liceo: tuition is free. The Cambridge sections are paid - 680 EUR a year including textbooks; each IGCSE exam costs 150 EUR, IELTS about 260 EUR.
Admissions Enrolment is online through the national system. First-year places in the Cambridge sections are filled by an entry test: the school publishes the entry test results for first-year Cambridge sections for the 2026-2027 school year; the test criteria are not described on the course page.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5, 41 classes. A five-year liceo classico; the classical liceo timetable is unchanged, and three hours a week are added in the Cambridge sections (sections C, E and L are named in a notice). Exams: IGCSE Biology at the end of the second year, IGCSE English as a Second Language at the end of the third, two optional exams at the end of the fourth (History or Global Perspectives; Marine Science, French or Chemistry), and IELTS in March of the fifth year. IGCSE subjects are taught by native-speaker teachers with Italian teachers; for IGCSE History (0470) the school is selecting native-speaker teachers in 2026 for 2024-2027.
Address Via Cugia 2, 09129 Cagliari (CA)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE.
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
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The building on via Cugia, built to a 1950s design; the Antonio Gramsci assembly hall opened in November 2025, and the library is named after headmaster Sebastiano Broccia.
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
IGCSE subjects are taught by native English-speaking teachers together with the liceo's Italian teachers; the school runs open selections of external native-speaker experts, including for IGCSE History.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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