← Back to the rankingLiceo don Lorenzo Milani
Acquaviva Delle Fonti, Italy · est. 1959 · State
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The Liceo don Lorenzo Milani is a state liceo in Acquaviva delle Fonti near Bari, merged since 2023-2024 with the Liceo Leonardo da Vinci in neighbouring Cassano delle Murge. It grew out of a municipal teacher-training institute opened in 1959 with 15 students, became a state school in 1974 and was named after the educator Lorenzo Milani. Today it offers eight tracks on three sites: social sciences, economics and social sciences, linguistic, music, scientific, applied sciences, classical and the Liceo del Made in Italy. About 1250 students attend in 66 classes, taught by 109 teachers; there are 56 foreign students, and their share in the linguistic liceo is above the regional average. Lessons are taught in Italian. Since 2019-2020 the liceo has been a Cambridge IGCSE exam centre: students in grades 2-3 of all tracks can take an English as a Second Language course with the IGCSE exam, there is a Cambridge Global Perspectives project, and in the linguistic liceo some subjects are taught in English on British syllabuses. The school is part of the INDIRE innovative schools network and takes part in Erasmus+.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, German, Latin
About the fees The liceo is a state school and charges no tuition.
Admissions Enrolment in grade 1 follows the state online procedure (for 2026-2027, from 13 January to 14 February 2026, extended to 21 February); before enrolment the liceo holds open days, mini-labs by booking, a 'liceo student for a day' programme and individual guidance meetings. The Cambridge IGCSE English course is open to students in grades 2-3 of all tracks in mixed groups. There are 56 foreign students from various countries; the school describes itself as open and inclusive.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato, eight tracks: Liceo delle Scienze Umane, Liceo Economico Sociale, Liceo Linguistico (English, French, Spanish, German; 28 hours a week in grades 1-2 and 31 hours in grades 3-5, 33 hours a year of conversation with a native speaker, CLIL from grade 3), Liceo Musicale, Liceo Scientifico, Liceo Scientifico opzione Scienze Applicate, Liceo Classico (with a biomedicine course), Liceo del Made in Italy. Cambridge: an IGCSE English as a Second Language (0511) course for students in grades 2-3 of all tracks in mixed groups, with the IGCSE exam; a Cambridge Global Perspectives project; in the linguistic liceo, subjects taught in English on British syllabuses (Biology, Travel and Tourism, English as a Second Language).
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. Students in years 2-3 of every track can take an IGCSE English course with an exam, and the languages liceo teaches selected subjects in English to Cambridge syllabuses.
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 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: Art studio
Clubs and activities: Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language Course · Cambridge Global Perspectives · Change the World Model UN · High-Level Student-Athlete Programme · STEM: Girls Get in the Game! · First Lego League · Bebras Computing Challenge · Spanish Olympiad · Greek and Latin Competitions · National Classical Lyceum Night · Erasmus+
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers109
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The liceo has 109 teachers and 31 technical and administrative staff; more than 90% of permanent staff have worked at the school for over five years. For inclusion there are 22 support teachers, an autonomy and communication assistant, 8 educators and a specialist for visually impaired students. The Cambridge course is taught by teachers of the liceo with English certificates and external native-speaker experts.
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
A psychological support desk helps students with emotional, relational and behavioural difficulties related to school; there is a team of support teachers and educators for children with special needs.
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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 data70 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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