← Back to the rankingLiceo Statale G. Moscati
Grottaglie, Italy · est. 1968 · State
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Liceo Moscati is a large state liceo in Grottaglie, a ceramics town near Taranto. The liceo scientifico opened here in 1968 as a branch of a Taranto liceo and became independent in 1975; later a liceo classico was merged into it and linguistic, human sciences and economic and social tracks were added. Today 1215 students in 60 classes study in four buildings in the town. Teaching is in Italian. Since 2017 the liceo scientifico has had an international Cambridge section: biology, geography and English as a second language in years 1-4 are taught in English by native-speaker teachers, and the courses end with IGCSE exams. The school prepares students for Cambridge English and IELTS, the German Goethe, Spanish DELE and French DELF exams, takes part in Erasmus+ and in the P-TECH project with the Polytechnic University of Bari. Its students are Italian champions of the Geometriko maths game.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin
Class size
20 students per class on average
About the fees It is a state school and tuition is free. The school is funded mainly by the state and partly by voluntary family contributions (contributo volontario); the school states the contribution and any fee for the Cambridge section without amounts. Arabic and Chinese courses are paid for by participants.
Admissions Enrolment in year 1 is through the national online procedure (Iscrizioni on line), usually in January; for the 2026-2027 school year the deadline was 31 January 2026, later extended. In January and February the school office helps families fill in the application, and the school holds open days in all its buildings. According to the school, the international Cambridge section is for students who wish to broaden their cultural awareness and study prospects; the site describes no separate selection or test for it. According to the school, there are few foreign students; the site describes no separate procedure for admitting them.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo following the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Tracks: liceo scientifico, liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, liceo scientifico with an international Cambridge IGCSE section (since the 2017-2018 school year), liceo classico (with Ancient Greek), liceo linguistico (English, Spanish, German, French; classes with native-speaker teachers), liceo delle scienze umane and its economic and social option (with French). Cambridge section: the standard liceo scientifico timetable is extended with English as a Second Language (2 hours a week in years 1-2 and 1 hour in years 3-4), Biology and Geography (1 hour each in years 1-4) taught in English by native-speaker teachers; in total 31 hours a week in years 1-2 and 33 hours in years 3-4; the courses end with IGCSE exams. There is no AS and A Level course. From year 3 students can join the six-year P-TECH project.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. The international section of the science liceo teaches English as a Second Language, biology and geography in English with native speakers in years 1-4, leading to IGCSE exams.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓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
Clubs and activities: Moscati Choir · Theatre Group · Chess at School · School Sports Competitions · Geometriko (maths game, national tournament) · Informatics Olympiad · Philosophy Olympiad · Bocconi Games · Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking · First Steps in Robotics · Philosophy Festival · IELTS B2/C1, Goethe B1, DELE, DELF · Arabic and Chinese Language Course · Erasmus+ (international exchanges)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers83
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school has 83 teachers and 33 technical and administrative staff. Cambridge section subjects are taught by native English-speaking teachers; the liceo linguistico has native-speaker language teachers, and specialised native-speaker teachers prepare students for Cambridge English exams.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
There is an inclusion plan for 2025-2026 and individual plans for students with special needs, ongoing support sessions in Italian, mathematics and English for students who are struggling, and catch-up courses. Combating bullying, cyberbullying and discrimination is part of the civic and digital education programme. The buildings have external fire escapes, panic doors and accessible toilets.
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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 data65 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.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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