← Back to the rankingLiceo Scientifico Statale Galileo Galilei
Ancona, Italy · est. 1973 · State
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Liceo Galilei is a state scientific liceo in Ancona, opened in 1973 when the city's oldest scientific liceo became overcrowded. Since the early 1980s it has occupied buildings in the Monte D'Ago district next to the Università Politecnica delle Marche, with which it runs joint teaching and guidance. It is the only school in the city that has remained a purely scientific liceo, and by enrolment it is the largest scientific liceo in Ancona, now with 813 students and 58 teachers. Tracks: the traditional scientific liceo, the humanities-and-science Talete track with philosophy from year 1 and iPad work, the Cambridge International section, the applied sciences scientific liceo and its STEM variant, and a biomedical strand. Lessons are in Italian; in the Cambridge section English as a Second Language, Mathematics and Global Perspectives are taught in English on Cambridge syllabuses, with IGCSE exams and optional AS Mathematics. All students can take an optional second European language and preparation for English exams up to CAE, which the school has run since 1991.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
Latin, French, Spanish, German
Students per teacher
about 14 students per teacher
About the fees The school is state-run and tuition is free. The school council asks families who can to pay a voluntary contribution of 120 EUR a year (no year is given for the amount). A compulsory fee is charged for the Cambridge course to pay for native-speaker teachers and extra hours; the school gives the course surcharge without an amount.
Admissions Enrolment in year 1 is online through the national Ministry of Education procedure (for 2026-2027 from 13 January to February 2026), using a SPID, CIE or eIDAS digital identity; the office helps families without a computer. The Cambridge International and STEM sections have limited places, up to 25 students; a compulsory fee is charged for the Cambridge course. The school has foreign students: according to the PTOF they make up 5.7%, all second generation, and some receive Italian language support.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo scientifico on the Italian curriculum ending with the esame di Stato. Tracks: liceo scientifico tradizionale, Talete (philosophy from year 1, iPad, multimedia workshops), Liceo Scientifico Cambridge International, liceo scientifico scienze applicate and its STEM variant (up to 25 students), a biomedical strand in years 3-5 (50 hours a year, with doctors and hospital placements). The Cambridge section (since 2023, up to 25 students) adds to the Italian curriculum English as a Second Language on the IGCSE syllabus (2 hours a week in years 1-2, 1 hour in year 3), Mathematics IGCSE (1 hour in years 1-2) and Global Perspectives (1 hour in years 1-2), taught in English using CLIL; optional AS Mathematics (1 hour in years 3-4, exam in year 4); in year 5 physics in English (CLIL), 1 hour. The section's week is 31 hours (32 with AS).
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE, AS and A Level. The Cambridge International section of the science lyceum teaches IGCSE English, Mathematics and Global Perspectives in years 1-2, with optional AS Level Mathematics 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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Theatre Workshop - Cinema and Set Design · Journalism Workshop · FAI Project - Spring Days · Italian Language Olympiad · Physics Olympiad · Mathematics Olympiad · Informatics Olympiad · Science Olympiad · ICDL Certification · PET/FCE/CAE Certification Preparation · Erasmus+ (international exchanges) · Service Learning · School Sports Championships · First Lego League
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 sizein the key facts above
According to the PTOF the school has 58 teachers and 25 technical and administrative staff; most teachers are permanent, the staff is stable, and some teachers hold language or IT certificates. Native English-speaking teachers work in the Cambridge section.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
There is a CIC counselling service and psychological support for all classes under the Scuola che promuove salute project, a section and rules on preventing bullying and cyberbullying, an evacuation plan, regular drills and building safety checks.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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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