← Back to the rankingLiceo Scientifico «Ignazio Vian»
Bracciano, Italy · est. 1967 · State
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Liceo Scientifico Ignazio Vian is a state liceo in Bracciano on Lake Bracciano, opened in 1967 with a single science liceo class; its first head and effective founder was Cesare Pavese. It is named after Ignazio Vian, a partisan commander executed in 1944. Today science, classical and language licei operate under one management on two sites, in Bracciano and, since the 2010-2011 school year, in Anguillara Sabazia; students come from all the towns around the lake, part of the province of Viterbo and northern Rome. Lessons are in Italian under the state curriculum, over five years, ending with the esame di Stato. Tracks: science liceo (including a robotics and artificial intelligence track and a sports project), classical liceo, classical liceo with the Cambridge International course, three-language liceo and ESABAC with a double Italian-French diploma. In May 2020 the liceo became a Cambridge International school and since 2020-2021 has run a Cambridge classical liceo: English as a second language and mathematics prepare for IGCSE exams, taken in years 3-4 at the liceo.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish, Latin
About the fees Tuition at the state liceo is free. The school's funds are mainly from the state; among private sources the school names family contributions, without an amount. The Cambridge course pages say nothing about an extra charge for the course or exam fees.
Admissions Enrolment in the first year is through the state online procedure on the ministry website; the Cambridge course is chosen as a separate track, the Cambridge International section of the classical liceo. The website describes no selection or test for the Cambridge course. The school says the share of students with foreign citizenship is steadily growing and sees support for children with language and cultural gaps as part of its task.
Stages and year groups Italian state curriculum, 5 years, ending with the esame di Stato. Tracks: liceo scientifico (including robotics and artificial intelligence and a sports project), liceo classico, liceo classico Cambridge International, liceo linguistico (English plus two of French, Spanish and German), ESABAC liceo linguistico (double esame di Stato and baccalauréat diploma). Cambridge International in one classical liceo section only: IGCSE English as a Second Language (on top of 3 hours of English, 2 hours a week with a native speaker in years 1-2 and 1 hour in years 3-4, in the morning, planned with the English teacher) and IGCSE Mathematics (within regular mathematics hours, taught by a teacher with C1 certification); in 2022-2025 IGCSE Biology was also part of the course. IGCSE exams are in years 3-4, at the liceo; papers are set and marked by Cambridge. 29 hours a week in years 1-2, 32 hours in years 3-4, 31 hours in year 5.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. One classical lyceum section studies English with a native speaker and Mathematics on IGCSE syllabuses, sitting the exams in years 3-4 at school.
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 hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: Physics Olympiad · Anacleto Games (physics competition for younger students) · LAB2GO Robotics and Physics · Particle (cosmic ray research) · Adopt a Monument · Sports Project · Mad for Science
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
The Cambridge course is taught by liceo teachers with language certificates (the English teacher C2, the mathematics teacher C1, the science teacher B2) together with native speakers; there is a Cambridge section coordinator who is also the exams officer, and a teacher coordinator. ESABAC teachers are trained by the French Embassy.
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
A psychological counselling service with two psychologists is available to students and staff, plus a study skills clinic by appointment. The school has an anti-bullying lead teacher and team, a bullying and cyberbullying prevention protocol following ministry guidelines and a separate liceo website on bullying prevention.
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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 data70 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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