Liceo Simone - Morea is a state liceo in Conversano near Bari that brings together two historic schools: the classical liceo Domenico Morea, which became a royal liceo in 1861 and is housed in the former bishop's seminary, and the scientific liceo Sante Simone, opened in 1946 as a municipal school. Tracks: the liceo classico, including a Cambridge section, the liceo scientifico (including a sports variant) and the applied sciences option. Teaching follows the state curriculum in Italian with the esame di Stato. In the classical liceo with the Cambridge course, part of the Latin, maths, geography and biology lessons in the lower grades is taught on Cambridge syllabuses in English. All tracks offer a biomedical course from grade 3 together with doctors from Bari, optional law and economics, and the classical liceo offers extra maths. The school has 890 students in 42 classes, 21 per class on average; students come from neighbouring towns from Polignano and Monopoli to Capurso.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
Class size
21 students per class on average
About the fees The school is a state school and tuition is free. Families pay a voluntary contribution (contributo volontario); the school mentions it without stating an amount.
Admissions Enrolment in grade 1 follows the state online procedure on the Ministry of Education's Unica platform (SPID, CIE, CNS or eIDAS); the enrolment page gives dates from 18 January to 10 February, and the office helps from 10 to 12. The school does not describe separate selection for the Cambridge section. According to the school plan, most entrants completed scuola media with marks of 9-10 out of 10. About 3,6% of students have foreign citizenship, mostly long-term residents of Italy.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-5 scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Five-year liceo on the Italian curriculum with the esame di Stato. Liceo classico (new curriculum since 2010-2011) and the liceo classico with the Cambridge course (since 2013-2014 according to the school plan): 1 hour a week taught on Cambridge syllabuses in history and geography and in maths in grades 1-2, and in Latin and natural sciences in grades 2-3; the school names IGCSE Latin, Mathematics, Geography and, since 2022-2023, Biology, while English as a Second Language was replaced by a B2 and C1 language certificate course. Liceo scientifico (since 2010-2011), the scienze applicate option (since 2014-2015) and a sports variant with an extra hour of PE. From grade 3 all students can take the national biology course with a biomedical focus; law and economics are optional; grades 4-5 of the classical liceo have Matematica +. The classical liceo has 27 hours a week in grades 1-2 and 31 hours in grades 3-5.
Address Via Morgantini 1, 70014 Conversano (BA) - Plesso Morea, liceo classico; Via Gallo 2, 70014 Conversano (BA) - Plesso Sante Simone, liceo scientifico
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 Cambridge stream of the classical liceo, one weekly hour each of Latin, maths, geography and biology in years 1-3 follows the IGCSE syllabus.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Clubs and activities: Language Certification Courses · Biology with Biomedical Focus · Law & Economics · Mathematics + · Cultural Heritage and Restoration · Olympiads and Competitions · eTwinning · Erasmus
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 school plan, most teachers are on permanent contracts and have taught at the school for many years; some hold B2 language certificates for CLIL teaching and computing certificates, and many have inclusion training. In the biomedical course lessons are taught by teachers and doctors from the Bari medical council. The school does not publish the number of teachers.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school's organisation chart includes a lead for bullying and cyberbullying prevention; the school plan lists it among its areas of work, while noting that cyberbullying is not among the school's problems. All buildings have ramps and lifts, and there is digital equipment for students with disabilities.
Reviews
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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 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.
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