← Back to the rankingLiceo Scientifico Statale Arcangelo Scacchi
Bari, Italy · est. 1924 · State
Illustration · Bari
Liceo Scientifico Statale Arcangelo Scacchi is the first science liceo in the province of Bari: it opened in November 1924 and since 1932 has occupied its building on Corso Cavour. It has 1183 students; lessons run five days a week, Monday to Friday, in two historic buildings. The core liceo scientifico is enriched with profiles: science, STEM, mathematics liceo, history and architecture, law, and a Cambridge IGCSE course. According to the school's PTOF, the Cambridge IGCSE course has an additional hour of physics in English and two hours of English as a second language. The main language of instruction is Italian; the Cambridge course subjects are taught in English.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees Tuition at this state liceo is free, as in all Italian state schools.
Admissions The school describes its students as diverse, from the whole city and province, with a growing share of children from other countries (EU, Maghreb, Africa, Asia); for students with another first language there are Italian as a second language (Italiano L2) workshops with a cultural mediator. Admission follows completion of lower secondary school (scuola secondaria di primo grado), through online enrolment on the Ministry of Education portal within the period announced each year by circular, usually in November.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 (liceo scientifico). Five-year liceo scientifico with profiles: science (physics and natural science lab), STEM, mathematics liceo (two extra hours a week), Cambridge IGCSE course, history and architecture, and law. The Cambridge IGCSE course per the PTOF: an additional hour of physics in English and two hours of English as a second language; the international strand names Cambridge IGCSE Physics and English as a Second Language. The hours are part of the profile's study plan. The school does not state the year the course opened or its centre number.
Address Corso Cavour 241, 70121 Bari
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE.
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 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: Makerspace
Campus: Two historic buildings. Per the PTOF: 9 internet-connected labs, including chemistry, 2 physics, computing, languages, 2 natural science labs, a planetarium, a natural science museum and a STEM lab; a traditional and a digital library, an assembly hall, 3 gyms, an immersive classroom and robotics and 3D modelling labs.
Clubs and activities: Mathematics Championships · Physics Championships · Astronomy Championships · Robotics Championships · Nao Challenge (robotics) · SkakkiNostri School Newspaper · CIPS - Cinema for Schools · Certamina (Latin competitions) · European Youth Parliament · Erasmus+
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers88
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
According to the PTOF the school has 88 teachers; more than 75% have worked at the liceo for over five years.
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 names psychological support and a listening desk (sportello di ascolto), a cultural mediator and a protocol to prevent bullying and cyberbullying.
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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