← Back to the rankingLiceo Scienze umane, artistico e musicale Giovanni Pascoli
Bolzano, Italy · State
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Liceo Scienze umane, artistico e musicale Giovanni Pascoli is an Italian-language state liceo in Bolzano, South Tyrol. It grew out of the Istituto Magistrale teacher-training school, has been housed since 2010 in a modern building in the Firmian district, and combines a humanities liceo (scienze umane and the social and economic LES), an arts liceo (fine arts and graphic design) and, since 2020-2021, the province's only music liceo. About 860 students attend in 42 classes. Lessons are in Italian, and all students study German as a second language. Since 2015 the humanities liceo has had an international trilingual section: history, geography, art history, music and physical education are taught in German, and biology and sociology in English with native-speaker teachers; students take Cambridge IGCSE exams in Biology, Sociology and English as a Second Language and receive the German DPS diploma for admission to German universities. Since 2016 the school has been a Cambridge International School, and since 2022-2023 the arts liceo has prepared students for IGCSE Art and Design.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Languages taught
German, Latin
Class size
on average 20 students per class
About the fees The school is a state (provincial) school and tuition is free. Study trips and language trips are paid by families; the school council has approved partial support for families in difficulty. Fees for international language certificates can be reimbursed through the school on application.
Admissions Admission to year 1 is online with SPID or the Carta Servizi from 15 January to 15 February. The international trilingual section is aimed at students with good German and English, especially those from language programmes in lower secondary school; if there are more applications than places, B1 certificates in the second language (German or Italian) and in English give priority. The music liceo admits students by an entrance audition in early February. Transfers from other schools and after study abroad are handled through exams in August. For students of other citizenship or mother tongue the school provides courses in Italian as a second language.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo following the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato: liceo delle scienze umane, liceo delle scienze umane opzione economico-sociale (LES), liceo artistico (arti figurative and grafica), liceo musicale (since 2020-2021, by entrance audition). German as a second language and English in all tracks. International trilingual section of the humanities liceo (since 2015): 35 hours a week in years 1-2, history and geography, art history, music, part of law and economics, and physical education in German, natural sciences (Biology) and part of human sciences (Sociology) in English with native-speaker teachers; IGCSE exams in Biology, Sociology and English as a Second Language; German DPS diploma (Deutsch-Profil-Schule, since 2021). In the arti figurative arts liceo - IGCSE Art and Design in years 3-4 (130 hours, with a native English-speaking teacher, optional exam at the end of year 4).
Address Via Grazia Deledda 4, 39100 Bolzano (BZ)
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 trilingual humanities section, biology and sociology are taught in English by native speakers for IGCSE, and the art liceo offers IGCSE Art and Design 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). 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
Also on site: Art studio · Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Theatre · CinemaLAB · Educational Robotics · Sports Club · Instrument and Ensemble Music Workshops · Escape: Open Art Gallery · Conflict Management · Reading Promotion · Meet the Author · Goethe B2 and C1 Courses · Cambridge FCE and CAE Courses · University Entrance Test Preparation Courses
Summer programme away from campus: . The school runs no camp of its own on campus
For years 1-2, at the end of August and start of September, there is a two-week language trip to Germany with college accommodation and a course matched to level, with the school's teachers; in the second half of June there is a language trip to Ireland with host-family stays, an English course and excursions.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers122
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school has 122 teachers, 10 inclusion assistants and 7 administrative staff. In the international section, subjects in German and English are taught by subject teachers together with German and English teachers or external native-speaker teachers; in the arts liceo the IGCSE Art and Design course is taught jointly by a native Italian-speaking teacher and a native English-speaking teacher.
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 policynot stated on the website
The Progetto Parliamone psychological counselling service has a psychologist for students, teachers, parents and staff; there are inclusion assistants, plans for students with disabilities and learning difficulties, a network for inclusion and wellbeing at school, and mentoring and tutoring.
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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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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