← Back to the rankingLiceo Scientifico e Linguistico Statale Leonardo
Agrigento, Italy · est. 1957 · State
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Liceo Leonardo is the first scientific liceo in Agrigento, founded in 1957 as an offshoot of the Empedocle classical liceo; from the 1970s it was among the first in the province to run experimental programmes, including a linguistic one. Today it is a large state school: 1501 students in 72 classes across three buildings in the city. Tracks: liceo scientifico (including data science and artificial intelligence, Liceo Matematico and sports options), liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, a biomedical option and liceo linguistico with English, French and German. Lessons are taught in Italian. Since 2020-2021 in scientific section D part of English, mathematics and history follows Cambridge syllabuses in English with IGCSE exams, and since 2021-2022 students in linguistic section CL take IGCSE in Business English and Chinese. The school holds Erasmus+ accreditation and runs a student-athlete programme.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, German, Chinese, Latin
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. The payments section of the school website is closed to automated reading, so contribution and Cambridge course amounts are not included.
Admissions Grade 1 enrolment follows the state online procedure (Iscrizioni on-line) within dates announced each year by circular, usually in November. The Cambridge section of the scientific liceo requires a Cambridge PET or a B1 certificate, which can be obtained at the school during the school year. The open pages of the website give no other admission conditions.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Tracks: liceo scientifico (options: Cambridge section, data science and artificial intelligence, Liceo Matematico), liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, liceo scientifico sportivo, a biomedical option, liceo linguistico (English, French, German; lessons with native speakers, exit level B2) and a linguistic Cambridge section. Scientific Cambridge section (section D, since 2020-2021): English as a Second Language - an extra hour in grades 1-2 and 2 hours in grades 3-5 with a native speaker, with AS Level preparation in grade 5; Mathematics - in grades 1-3 one maths hour a week in English with a native speaker; History - in grades 3-4 one history hour in English; Biology - optional, outside lesson time from grade 3. Linguistic Cambridge section (CL, since 2021-2022): Business English and Chinese with IGCSE exams.
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. Section D of the science lyceum teaches English, Mathematics and History partly in English toward IGCSE and AS Level in year 5; the languages section offers IGCSE Business English and Chinese.
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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·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
Campus: The liceo occupies three buildings in Agrigento: the main one on Viale della Vittoria and buildings on Via Platone and Via Dante; classes are assigned to buildings by an annual decree. The open pages of the website do not describe labs, gyms or a library.
Clubs and activities: Erasmus+ · Student-Athlete Programme
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 English as a Second Language is taught by a native speaker, and mathematics in English by a teacher together with a native speaker. In the linguistic liceo a native-speaker teacher leads one full lesson a week in the foreign language, coordinating the syllabus with the teacher. The open pages do not give staff numbers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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 data55 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 data64 "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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