← Back to the rankingLiceo Classico Statale Gian Battista Vico
Naples, Italy · est. 1894 · State
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Liceo Gian Battista Vico is a state classical liceo in Naples, established by royal decree in 1894 and named after the Neapolitan philosopher. It occupies the historic former monastery of San Francesco di Sales on Via Salvator Rosa. Today it is a large school with about 1290 students in 52 classes. Besides the classical liceo, including a four-year version, it offers scientific tracks with coding and a biomedical profile and linguistic tracks, including a theatre option and the double Italian-French ESABAC diploma. Lessons are taught in Italian. Since 2016 the school has been a Cambridge International School: in the classical liceo with the Cambridge course, biology, mathematics and English as a Second Language in grades 1-2 and English General Paper and International History in grades 3-4 are taught in English with native-speaker teachers, and students prepare for IGCSE and AS Level exams. The liceo prepares all interested students for Cambridge English language exams free of charge and has received a Cambridge award for this; the school has a physics and natural science museum and a large historic library.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. Families pay a voluntary contribution, which the school uses to offer low-cost language certificate preparation, university entrance test courses, swimming and EIPASS computer certificates, and to help families in difficulty, for example with trip costs. Cambridge English exam preparation courses are free for students.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure, announced by circular usually in November; before enrolment the school holds open days and helps families with the technical side of the online application. The website does not describe a selection for the Cambridge classes. According to the PTOF the school has a few second-generation students of foreign origin, with no difficulties with language or integration.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Liceo on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Tracks: liceo classico (Latin and Ancient Greek), liceo classico Cambridge IGCSE (five-year), liceo classico quadriennale Cambridge (four-year, 45-minute lessons with part of the teaching online), liceo classico with a science option, liceo scientifico with coding, liceo scientifico with a biomedical profile, liceo linguistico with a digital and theatre option, liceo linguistico ESABAC (Italian diploma and French baccalauréat), and a linguistic liceo for international relations. Cambridge course: IGCSE Biology, Mathematics and English as a Second Language in grades 1-2, AS Level English General Paper and International History in grades 3-4; lessons are taught by a native speaker together with the Italian subject teacher, plus extracurricular English hours.
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. The Cambridge classical liceo takes IGCSE Biology, Mathematics and English in years 1-2 and AS Level English General Paper and International History in years 3-4, taught with native speakers.
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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
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
Campus: A historic four-storey building, the former monastery of San Francesco di Sales on Via Salvator Rosa, next to the Salvator Rosa metro station. According to the PTOF: high, spacious rooms and wide corridors, an outdoor relaxation area, indoor gyms, a five-a-side pitch and two basketball courts, chemistry, physics, biotechnology and microscopy labs, a multimedia lab, a mobile iPad lab, a physics and natural science museum, an assembly hall and a library with archive of more than 10000 volumes occupying a whole wing of the ground floor. All classrooms have touch monitors and the whole building has Wi-Fi; the building fully meets safety and accessibility standards.
Clubs and activities: Cambridge English Certifications · Spanish, French and German Certifications · Swimming · EIPASS · Sports Workshop
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
Cambridge subjects are taught by Italian teachers together with native English-speaking teachers; the Cambridge course and the four-year liceo each have a teacher in charge, and there is an internationalisation coordinator. According to the PTOF the share of teachers on permanent contracts is slightly above the national average. The school does not publish staff numbers.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
A psychological support desk is available to students; the school has a hospital section for students treated in hospital or at home. According to the PTOF the building fully complies with safety, accessibility and fire prevention standards.
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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 data55 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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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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