← Back to the rankingLiceo Classico e Linguistico Statale Aristofane
Rome, Italy · est. 1978 · State
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Liceo Classico e Linguistico Statale Aristofane is a state upper secondary school (scuola statale) in north-east Rome, in the Tufello district, founded in 1978 with 2 classes and 45 students. Today it has 61 classes in two tracks, liceo classico and liceo linguistico, and about 1400 students in three buildings. In the liceo linguistico the first language is English, the second French or Spanish and the third French, Spanish or German, each including an hour of conversation with a native speaker. Since February 2016 the school has been a Cambridge International School: in separate classes of both tracks, Cambridge IGCSE subjects taught by native-speaker teachers are added in the first three years - English as a Second Language and Biology in the liceo classico, English as a Second Language and Global Perspectives in the liceo linguistico. Other lessons are in Italian. There are also tablet classes.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, German, Latin
About the fees The school is state-run and tuition is free. The voluntary family contribution (contributo volontario) for 2025-2026 is 120 EUR a year, payable in two instalments of 60 EUR; it is optional and tax-deductible. For Cambridge classes families pay an annual fee set by the school council; the Cambridge IGCSE exam in the October-November 2026 session costs 114.25 EUR per exam.
Admissions A state school: enrolment in the first year follows the national Iscrizioni online procedure on the Piattaforma Unica (for 2026-2027 from 13 January to 21 February 2026, after an extension). Cambridge classes require an English grade of at least 8 out of 10 in the first term of the third year of middle school or a language certificate; the family sends the grade as soon as the report is issued. At the start of the year new students take aptitude tests, discussed with counselling psychologists. Among projects funded by family contributions, the school lists an Italian as a second language course for students.
Stages and year groups 61 classes. Five-year programmes ending with the esame di Stato: liceo classico (27 hours a week in years 1-2, 31 in years 3-5) and liceo linguistico (27 and 30 hours; English compulsory, second language French or Spanish, third French, Spanish or German). Cambridge (IGCSE) runs only in separate Cambridge classes: in the liceo classico, English as a Second Language (2 hours in year 1, 1 hour in year 2, exam at the end of year 2, usually in the autumn of year 3) and Biology (1 hour in years 1-3, exam at the start of year 4); in the liceo linguistico, English as a Second Language likewise and Global Perspectives (1 hour in years 1-3, exam at the start of year 4). Cambridge classes have 30 hours a week in years 1-2 and 31-32 in year 3. IGCSE exams are not compulsory. The site has an EsaBac page (dual Italian-French diploma), but the school's 2025 presentation does not mention it.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. Cambridge classes take IGCSE English as a Second Language plus Biology (classical liceo) or Global Perspectives (languages liceo) in years 1-3; sitting the exams is optional.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: Three buildings in the Tufello - Montesacro district of Rome: the main one on Via Monte Resegone and two branches. All classrooms are networked by fibre optic and have a PC with a projector or a digital board. Language, chemistry, physics, ICT, astronomy and multimedia labs, a mobile computer lab and a graphic arts studio; an assembly hall, two libraries, a multipurpose room and a large garden. Two indoor gyms and an outdoor five-a-side pitch with stands at the main building, and a third gym at the Via delle Isole Curzolane branch. Lessons run five days a week, Saturday is free.
Clubs and activities: Theatre Workshop · Foreign-Language Theatre School · Canta e suona che ti passa (music project) · School Choir · Nuovo Cinema Aristofane (film club) · From the Sky to the Lab, from the Lab to the Sky (astronomy) · School Sports Club · Encounters with the Twentieth Century · Classical Languages Competitions · Mathematics Games · Diplomacy Education
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
A psychological counselling service (sportello d'ascolto) is available to students, parents and teachers by appointment; counselling psychologists run orientation for new students. Family contributions have funded a relationships project with a psychologist and participation in events of the national anti-bullying centre.
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 data65 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 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.
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