Liceo Giuseppe Parini is a state humanities liceo in Seregno, in Brianza. It grew out of a branch of the Istituto Magistrale Carlo Porta teacher-training school in Monza, became an independent school in 1984, was named after the poet Giuseppe Parini in 1989, and since 2010-2011 has operated as a liceo with three tracks: humanities (scienze umane), social and economic sciences (LES) and languages, where EsaBac - a double Italian-French diploma - has run since 2014-2015. About 1260 students attend in 55 classes in three buildings in Seregno and Lissone. Lessons are in Italian. The school teaches English, French, German and Spanish, prepares students for Cambridge English, DELF, ZD and DELE language exams, runs courses with native speakers and hosts exchange students.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian
Languages taught
English, French, German, Spanish, Latin
Class size
on average 23 students per class
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. For 2026-2027 the school council asks families for a contribution of 120 euros (100 euros per child if several children attend): part covers insurance, the report booklet, the electronic register and photocopying, and 80 euros is a voluntary donation to enrich the curriculum. After-school language courses carry a small registration fee.
Admissions Admission to year 1 follows the state online procedure in January; students move up to the following years automatically. If there are more applications than places, the school council's criteria apply: priority for students repeating a year at this school and students with disabilities, then points for the lower secondary school's guidance (liceo track - 10 points), residence (Seregno and Lissone - 7 points, neighbouring municipalities - 6, rest of the province - 4, other provinces - 2) and siblings at the school; ties are decided by lot. For students of foreign origin and recent arrivals the school provides Italian courses and a personalised learning plan; it also hosts foreign students on exchange programmes.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo following the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Liceo delle scienze umane: Italian, Latin, human sciences (education, psychology, sociology, anthropology), philosophy, English. Liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale (LES): law and economics, human sciences, English and a second language (French or Spanish). Liceo linguistico: English, French or German, Spanish; CLIL; EsaBac since 2014-2015 - history in French and a double diploma esame di Stato and Baccalauréat. After school - English courses with native speakers for years 1-2 and preparation for PET, FCE, DELF, ZD and DELE. Cambridge International subject programmes are not currently described on the website.
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 course runs after lessons: about 300 hours over three years, in ESL, mathematics and Business Studies.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Three buildings: the main one on Via Gramsci and a branch on viale Tiziano in Seregno, and a branch on via Settembrini in Lissone. According to the PTOF, the school has two science labs, three assembly halls, three gyms, more than 300 computers and tablets in labs and another 59 in classrooms, interactive whiteboards in all three buildings, and a library. From 2026-2027 the school week is five days.
Clubs and activities: Artemisia - Liceo Parini arts and culture column · School Newspaper · Wedebate (debate) · PET, FCE, DELF, ZD and DELE Certificate Courses · English Enrichment with a Native Speaker · UNICEF Friendly School Project · Erasmus+ Avanzando en la inclusión · High-level Student Athlete Programme
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers128
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school has 128 teachers and 29 technical and administrative staff. Language courses are taught by the school's teachers and native-speaker teachers; there are support teachers for students with disabilities.
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
A psycho-educational counselling service (Spazio d'ascolto) operates, the school takes part in the provincial network against bullying and cyberbullying and runs programmes and meetings on the topic; there are admission and inclusion protocols for students with disabilities and special educational needs and guidelines for welcoming new students.
Reviews
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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 data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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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Seregno, Italy · est. 1984 · State