Liceo Salvemini is a state scientific liceo in Bari, opened in 1970 as the III Liceo Scientifico and named after the historian Gaetano Salvemini; since 1980 it has been in the Japigia school complex. About 1050 students attend in 48 classes. Tracks: liceo scientifico and, since 2013, liceo scientifico sportivo for federation athletes; since 2015 profiles with extra hours have been added - logic and computing, biotech, communication and Cambridge IGCSE. Lessons are taught in Italian. In the Cambridge profile some subjects, according to the course page mathematics and physics, follow Cambridge syllabuses with a native speaker, plus extra hours of English as a second language, with IGCSE exams. The liceo was the first in Bari to introduce bilingual teaching and is active in EU projects, theatre, a school radio and a magazine.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. According to the PTOF, extra profiles and courses, including Cambridge, are funded by a family contribution; families also pay a voluntary contribution towards the extended educational offer. The school states both contributions without figures.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure in January (Iscrizioni online), and the profile is chosen on enrolment; two more schools can be listed in case places run out. The website describes no selection for the Cambridge profile. The sports liceo is for students competing in federation sport at regional, national or international level.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato: liceo scientifico tradizionale and liceo scientifico sportivo. Profiles with extra hours (mornings in grades 1-2, afternoons in grades 3-5, counted as PCTO): logic and computing, BioTech, communication and Cambridge IGCSE. Cambridge profile: according to the course page, English as a Second Language, Mathematics and Physics with extra English hours in grades 1-5 and a native speaker in the IGCSE subjects; according to the PTOF three subjects are chosen each year from Latin, ESL, Physics, Mathematics, Biology and Geography, one hour a week co-taught with a native speaker, and ESL as 2 extra hours after lessons. Optional German, French and Spanish courses are offered.
Address Via Prezzolini 9, Bari (Centro Studi Polivalente Japigia)
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 IGCSE profile of the science lyceum covers English, Mathematics and Physics (three subjects chosen yearly) on Cambridge syllabuses with a native speaker.
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: A three-storey building in the Centro Studi Polivalente school complex in the Japigia district, where the liceo has been since 1980. Each floor has classrooms, almost all with interactive whiteboards; there is an auditorium, a library of over 5000 volumes with computers, physics and biology labs, two language labs and the MathLab multimedia lab. As a sports liceo the school has indoor and outdoor gyms, a weights room and a table tennis room.
Clubs and activities: SKENÉ Salvemini (school theatre) · Salvemini in Libris (book project) · Log@ritmi (science and culture) · Salvemini Web Radio · School Magazine · Mathematics Olympiad · Certamen Profili (competition) · Erasmus+
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
Cambridge subjects involve native-speaker subject specialists; English as a second language is taught by native-speaker teachers. 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 policy
The website has a section on cyberbullying for parents, and the PTOF includes bullying and cyberbullying prevention; an inclusion working group operates and an inclusion plan is approved every year.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data55 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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