← Back to the rankingLiceo Scientifico Evangelista Torricelli
Bolzano, Italy · State
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Liceo Torricelli is an Italian-language scientific liceo in Bolzano, within the school system of the autonomous province of South Tyrol. Tracks: liceo scientifico, liceo scientifico with a Cambridge section (including an enhanced German option) and liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate; 34 classes in total. Lessons are taught in Italian; German is studied as the second language for 4 hours a week and English as the third. The school has been Cambridge accredited since 2018-2019: in the Cambridge section some English, mathematics, science, law and economics lessons are co-taught with a native English speaker, and in grades 3 and 4 students take IGCSE in English as a Second Language, Global Perspectives, Biology and Mathematics. Students with German or Ladin as their first language also attend, and the number of immigrant students is growing. Extracurricular activities include olympiads in mathematics, physics, computing, chemistry and neuroscience, robotics, STEM Racing, theatre, a school newspaper and preparation for Goethe and Cambridge language exams.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
German, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. The website does not mention a Cambridge course charge or school contributions.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure in January. Before enrolment the school holds an open day, individual meetings by chosen track (requested by email) and short class visits in January. The website describes no separate selection for the Cambridge section. For students recently arrived in Italy the school runs Italian courses with the Bolzano language centre, and German courses for students from other provinces.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo on the Italian curriculum of the province of Bolzano with the esame di Stato: liceo scientifico tradizionale, liceo scientifico tradizionale with a Cambridge section (an option with enhanced German: one history hour in German in grades 1-2 and German modules in grades 3-5), liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate. German is the second language, 4 hours a week in all grades. Cambridge section: 35 hours a week in total; some hours of English in grades 1-4, law and economics in grades 1-2, and mathematics and science in grades 1-3 are co-taught with a native English speaker. In grades 3 and 4 students take IGCSE exams in English as a Second Language, Global Perspectives, Biology and Mathematics; there is an IGCSE exam preparation course.
Address Via Rovigo 42, 39100 Bolzano
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 lyceum part of English, Mathematics, science and law/economics lessons in years 1-4 are co-taught by a native speaker, with IGCSE exams in years 3-4.
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.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: One building on Via Rovigo in Bolzano: a school library, an assembly hall, standard and specialist classrooms, and gyms used after school by eight city sports clubs. The school stresses practical and lab work in science.
Clubs and activities: Problem Solving Championships · Italian Olympiad in Informatics · Mathematics and Physics Olympiads · Neuroscience Olympiad · Chemistry Competitions · STEM Racing Italy - F1 Project · Robotics Course · Astronautics Course · Theatre Workshop · La Corrida School Newspaper · FAI Project · Peer Tutoring
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
In the Cambridge section lessons are co-taught with native speakers of English and German; each year the school recruits native English teachers for the Cambridge section by public call. A teacher at the school received the national Atlante - Italian Teacher Award 2026. The school does not publish staff numbers.
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
For students with special educational needs, including language difficulties, the class council draws up a personalised learning plan; there are Italian courses for newly arrived students, afternoon subject help desks, internal and external peer tutoring, and health and civic education programmes.
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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 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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