← Back to the rankingLiceo Statale «Plinio il Giovane»
Citta Di Castello, Italy · est. 1903 · State
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Liceo Statale «Plinio il Giovane» is a state liceo in Città di Castello in northern Umbria. The school traces its history to a Jesuit and seminary school; it became a state school in 1903 as the Regio Ginnasio, became Regio Liceo Ginnasio in 1935 and has carried the name of Pliny the Younger since 1959. 569 students attend. Teaching is in Italian under the state curriculum, ending with the esame di Stato. There are three tracks: liceo classico (standard and, from the 2026-2027 school year, the P.L.A.S. option with extra English and art history), liceo scientifico and liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, both in a standard and a Cambridge International version. In the Cambridge classes English, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are taught alongside the national curriculum and partly in English, with a native-speaker teacher; students sit Cambridge IGCSE exams. The classical liceo with Cambridge (English, Latin, biology) no longer admits new students and is being completed by one class. In 2022-2026 the school building underwent major renovation.
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. In the PTOF the school writes that because of its limited budget it asks families for a voluntary contribution (contributo volontario); the school gives no amount for it or for Cambridge IGCSE exam fees on its website.
Admissions Enrolment in the first year of the liceo follows the state Iscrizioni online procedure on the ministry platform; the school office helps with questions. Cambridge International classes in the scientific and applied sciences licei are open to all. If applicants exceed the places allocated by the regional education office, the school ranks them by the average grade for the first term of the third year of scuola media and the English grade, plus 5 points for those who chose the standard track of the same liceo as second choice; ties are decided by the English grade, then language certificates from A1 to B2, then by lot. The website publishes no separate rules for foreign students; in the PTOF the school states that students of non-Italian origin attend.
Stages and year groups Five-year licei ending with the esame di Stato: liceo classico (standard; P.L.A.S. from the 2026-2027 school year; the Cambridge version no longer admits students and is completing class 3AC), liceo scientifico and liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, each in a standard and a Cambridge International version. Cambridge: in the scientific and applied sciences licei Cambridge International courses in English, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, partly in English with a native-speaker teacher, with Cambridge IGCSE exams in English as a Second Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology over the five years; in the classical liceo the Cambridge subjects are English, Latin and biology. Extra English hours are added in the first year of all Cambridge versions. In addition the school prepares students for Cambridge English language exams (PET, First, Advanced) in afternoon courses.
Address Viale Armando Diaz 2, 06012 Città di Castello (PG)
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 classes of the science and applied science licei, English, maths, physics, chemistry and biology are partly taught in English with a native speaker, with IGCSE exams over five years.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: PLINEWS · School Sports Centre · Mathematics Olympiad · Natural Sciences Championships · Neuroscience Olympiad · Chemistry Games · STEM Course in Rovers and Robotics · Gravisca Project (archaeological excavations in Tarquinia) · Geo (Earth sciences course)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers51
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has 51 teachers and 17 support staff. A very high share of teachers hold permanent contracts and have worked at the school for more than five years; some have taken language courses and international mobility programmes. In the Cambridge classes some lessons are co-taught with a native English-speaking teacher; a Cambridge coordinator manages the IGCSE 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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school arranges psychological counselling for students with specialists, but, as it says itself, only temporarily and within its budget. Prevention of bullying and cyberbullying is part of the school's civic education curriculum; first-year students take a bridging project in Italian in September.
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 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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