← Back to the rankingLiceo Scientifico e Liceo delle Scienze Umane «O.M. Corbino»
Siracusa, Italy · est. 1923 · State
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Liceo Scientifico e Liceo delle Scienze Umane O.M. Corbino is a state upper secondary school in Siracusa, named after the physicist Orso Mario Corbino. The scientific lyceum was established by royal decree on 9 September 1923 under the Gentile reform, and since 1935 it has been in the historic Palazzo degli Studi. Today the school offers a scientific lyceum (with biomedical and data science and artificial intelligence emphases and an international Cambridge IGCSE section), an applied sciences lyceum, a human sciences lyceum (with criminology and social-health emphases) and an economic and social lyceum. Teaching is in Italian; in the Cambridge section several science subjects are taught in parallel in English. The school describes itself as the only state school in Siracusa offering Cambridge courses and is a Cambridge exam centre.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, Latin
About the fees Tuition at this state school is free.
Admissions Admission to first year follows the state procedure; the school announces the composition of first-year classes at the end of August. The international Cambridge section is chosen at enrolment in the scientific or applied sciences lyceum. The school admits foreign students: it has a welcome programme and Italian as a second language courses, and supports students with a migrant background from enrolment to inclusion in class; through Intercultura it takes part in student exchanges.
Stages and year groups Italian state upper secondary curriculum ending with the esame di Stato (maturità). Tracks: liceo scientifico (with biomedical and data science and artificial intelligence emphases and an international Cambridge IGCSE section), liceo scientifico opzione scienze applicate, liceo delle scienze umane (criminology and social-health emphases), liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale. Cambridge International in the international section of the scientific and applied sciences lyceums: bilingual teaching of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Global Perspectives and English under Cambridge IGCSE syllabuses, in parallel with the Italian curriculum; taught by subject teachers with certified English, together with an English teacher where needed. In years 1-2 students prepare for IGCSE exams in mathematics and physics (scientific) or mathematics and chemistry (applied sciences), and in years 3-5 in other subjects, including optional ones. Exams are taken at the school.
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 international section of the science liceo, biology, chemistry, physics, maths, computer science and Global Perspectives are taught in English too, with IGCSE exams from year 1 to year 5.
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
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The main building on Viale Regina Margherita (the historic Palazzo degli Studi, which the lyceum moved into in 1935) and a branch on Via Pitia. The school lists computer, language, physics and science labs and a gym; it has a Moodle e-learning platform and a school newspaper.
Clubs and activities: Physics Olympiad · Mathematics Games · Informatics Olympiad · Italian Language Olympiad · Problem Solving Olympiad · Classical Languages Olympiad · Culture Olympiad · Sci-Tech Challenge · The Big Game of Cybersecurity · Le voci del Corbino (school newspaper) · Erasmus+ (exchanges) · eTwinning · Intercultura (student exchanges)
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 section subjects are taught by the school's own subject teachers with certified English, together with an English teacher where needed.
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 policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
Since 2024-2025 the Sp.A.D.A. support service, Spezza le catene del disagio, has operated with psychologists; there is a project against bullying and cyberbullying with psychological support for victims and bullies. For children in hospital the school takes part in the provincial hospital schooling network.
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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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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