← Back to the rankingLiceo Classico Statale Quinto Orazio Flacco
Bari, Italy · est. 1774 · State
Illustration · Bari
Liceo Classico Statale Quinto Orazio Flacco is a state classical liceo in Bari and the city's oldest secondary school: it traces its history to 1774, when the royal liceo of Apulia was founded. In the 2025/26 school year it has 915 students. Besides the regular classical liceo there is a four-year classical liceo, tracks with strengthened mathematics and with French bilingualism, and a Cambridge section with strengthened English. According to the PTOF 2025-2028, as part of IGCSE, Mathematics, History and Physics lessons are taught in English, and the school runs Cambridge IGCSE exams. In the Cambridge section English is taught 5 hours a week in the first two years, and one of the 4 Mathematics hours is taught in English on the Cambridge syllabus. The school is also a preparation centre for Cambridge English exams. The main language of instruction is Italian.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Latin
About the fees Tuition at the state liceo is free.
Admissions Students enrol through the ministry's online system after lower secondary school. If applications exceed places, the school applies criteria in order: a sibling at the liceo, the final lower secondary grade, for the Cambridge and bilingual sections the foreign language grade, then proximity of home or parents' workplace to the school and a draw. The four-year liceo also admits students born between 1 January and 30 April who have completed eight years of school. The PTOF notes growing student numbers, including foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (scuola secondaria di secondo grado). Classical liceo: regular, four-year, with strengthened mathematics, with French bilingualism and the Cambridge section (potenziamento di Inglese / Cambridge). According to the PTOF timetable the Cambridge section has English 5, 5, 4, 4 and 3 hours a week by year and Mathematics 4 hours in years 1-2; the section's study plan specifies that one of the 4 Mathematics hours in the first two years is in English on the Cambridge syllabus, and English in years 1-2 includes 2 extra hours. According to the PTOF, as part of IGCSE, Mathematics, History and Physics lessons are in English, and the school organises Cambridge IGCSE exams. In total 30 hours a week in years 1-2 and 32 hours in years 3-5. The school does not give the year the section started.
Address Via Pizzoli 58, 70123 Bari
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE.
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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.
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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
Campus: The liceo is housed in a historic 1930s building. According to the PTOF it has labs (computing, multimedia, science), a classics library, an assembly hall, a theatre, a gym, 142 computers and tablets in the labs and a holographic stage bought with PNRR funds. The school itself says it lacks teaching space and that the gym is too small for the number of students. It is a day school.
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 policynot stated on the website
The school works with a psychologist; the PTOF mentions support on bullying, homophobia and emotional development.
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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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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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