Liceo Ettore Majorana is a state liceo in Rho, north-west of Milan. It began in 1966 with a single class as a branch of the Milan liceo Vittorio Veneto, became independent in 1976 and moved into its own building on Via Ratti; three more local licei later grew out of it. According to the school, 731 students in 37 classes attended in 2024-2025. Tracks: liceo scientifico, liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, liceo scientifico Cambridge, liceo linguistico and a four-year linguistic liceo for interpreting and translation; from 2026-2027 a scientific liceo with extra mathematics is added. Lessons are taught in Italian. In the Cambridge section, opened in 2021-2022, English, mathematics and physics in grades 1-3 follow Cambridge syllabuses in English, together with native-speaker teachers, and students sit IGCSE exams. The school takes part in Erasmus+, is a European Parliament Ambassador School, prepares students for language certificates in four languages and since 2003 has been the reference school for hospital schooling.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · 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. On enrolment in grade 1 for 2026-2027 families pay a voluntary contribution of 140 EUR; students in the Cambridge section pay an additional 250 EUR. Cambridge textbooks and IGCSE exam fees are paid separately.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure in January; in summer it is completed at the office with a photo, tax code, lower secondary leaving certificate, competence certificate, report card, vaccination record, consent forms and a receipt for the voluntary contribution. Students admitted to the Cambridge section take an English orientation test in May, on a single date with no resit. According to the PTOF the school has a protocol for admitting foreign students with a plan for placing them in classes, and Italian courses for students recently arrived in Italy; through the Intercultura project the school hosts students from other countries for a period of study.
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 opzione scienze applicate, liceo scientifico Cambridge (since 2021-2022), liceo linguistico (English, French, German, Spanish), the four-year liceo linguistico quadriennale Interpretariato e Traduzione (since 2022-2023, three foreign languages), and from 2026-2027 a liceo scientifico with extra mathematics. Cambridge IGCSE course in the scientific liceo: English as a Second Language, Mathematics and Physics on Cambridge syllabuses in English in grades 1-3; in grades 1-2 one extra hour each of English, mathematics and physics with a native-speaker teacher, for a 30-hour week. The IGCSE Mathematics exam is taken at the end of grade 2, Physics and English at the end of grade 3 or in grade 4. The Italian curriculum is not reduced.
Address Via Ratti 88, 20017 Rho (MI)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. In the Cambridge section of the science liceo, English, maths and physics follow IGCSE syllabuses with a native speaker in years 1-3, with exams in years 2-4.
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
Exam results At the IGCSE certificate ceremony for class 4C in May 2026 Cambridge representatives noted that students' results in mathematics and English were above the national average. The school does not publish results in figures.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: One building on Via Ratti, built for the liceo in 1976 and later extended with a new wing. The ground floor has an atrium, an auditorium, a snack counter, a room for individual study before and after school, a conference room, a library, two gyms, a weights room and a sick bay. A separate floor holds the labs: a language lab, two computer labs, a multimedia room, a chemistry and physics lab and biology labs. The new wing has a room for the counselling service; there is a lift and a stair lift for students with disabilities and parking for bicycles and motorbikes.
Clubs and activities: Student Sports Club · Mathematics, Physics and Informatics Olympiads · Chemistry Games · Italian Language Olympiad · Latin Language Competitions · Debate · Erasmus+ (international exchanges) · European Parliament Ambassador School · Mad for Science
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers78
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
In 2024-2025 the school had 78 teachers; according to the PTOF 95% of them are on permanent contracts. Cambridge subjects are taught by Italian teachers together with highly qualified native-speaker teachers; the linguistic liceo has conversation teachers for English, French, German and Spanish.
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 room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
A CIC counselling point with a psychologist serves students, parents and teachers, and parents sign consent for it on enrolment. There is a sick bay, a coordinator for bullying and cyberbullying prevention, the Bye Bully digital wellbeing project, and protocols for students with special needs and for foreign students.
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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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 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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