← Back to the rankingLiceo Classico e Scientifico Francesco Sbordone
Naples, Italy · est. 1978 · State
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Liceo Francesco Sbordone is a state classical and scientific liceo in Naples, on the Colli Aminei hills by the Capodimonte park. It grew out of a branch of one of the city's scientific licei, became independent in 1978, has been in its own building on Via Vecchia San Rocco since 1985-1986, took the name of the classical philologist Francesco Sbordone in 1996 and opened a classical section in 2004. About 700 students attend in 31 classes. Tracks: liceo scientifico and liceo classico, both also with a biomedical profile and with a Cambridge course. Lessons are taught in Italian. According to the PTOF, in the Cambridge sections opened in 2018-2019 English as a Second Language and, in the scientific liceo, also physics and Business are taught in English on Cambridge syllabuses together with native-speaker teachers, and students may sit IGCSE exams. The school runs its own Olimpiadi dei Saperi Positivi competition and works with the University of Naples Federico II, the archaeological museum and the National Library; according to the school, 98% of graduates continue their studies.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. On enrolment in grade 1 for 2026-2027 families pay a voluntary contribution of 94 EUR (74 EUR for each sibling at the liceo), which includes compulsory insurance of 10 EUR and reimbursement of school expenses.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure; then, by 31 July, the family submits the application, the co-responsibility agreement, consent forms, student and parent documents, a photo and the lower secondary leaving certificate to the office. The website does not describe a selection for the Cambridge sections. According to the PTOF there are few foreign students; students of non-Italian origin receive language and intercultural support in Italian, and their integration into classes proceeds without difficulty.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Tracks: liceo scientifico, liceo scientifico Cambridge International English con Physics e Business, liceo scientifico with a biomedical profile, liceo classico (Latin and Ancient Greek), liceo classico Cambridge International English, liceo classico with a biomedical profile. According to the PTOF the Cambridge scientific liceo adds two hours of English in grades 1-4, an extra hour of physics in grades 1-4 and an hour of Business in grades 1-5 with external native-speaker teachers; the Cambridge classical liceo adds two hours of English in grades 1-3. Cambridge subjects: English as a Second Language, Business and Physics on Cambridge syllabuses; IGCSE exams after three or four years of the course.
Address Via Vecchia San Rocco 16, 80131 Napoli (NA)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. The Cambridge science stream teaches English as a Second Language, physics and business to IGCSE with native speakers; the Cambridge classical stream takes English as a Second Language.
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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
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: One building on Via Vecchia San Rocco, between Colli Aminei and Capodimonte, near the Capodimonte park; the liceo moved here in 1985-1986. According to the PTOF there are 35 classrooms with interactive boards and Wi-Fi, chemistry and biology labs, two physics labs (including a Galilean physics lab), computing, language, mathematics and ceramics labs, a digital library with a reading room, an assembly hall, a multimedia conference room, a theatre and two open-air amphitheatres, an indoor gym and an outdoor basketball and volleyball court, break areas with vending machines, and parking for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.
Clubs and activities: Theatre Workshop · Choir and Orchestra · Debate · Sbordone and the City (exploring historic Naples) · Olympiad of Positive Knowledge · Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy Olympiads
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 the school's teachers together with external native English-speaking teachers. The school describes a stable and highly qualified teaching staff. 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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school runs counselling and guidance desks for students, has an inclusion plan and individual plans for students with special needs; the PTOF includes bullying and cyberbullying prevention.
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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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 "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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