← Back to the rankingLiceo STEAM International A. Olivetti
Parma, Italy · est. 2021 · Private
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Liceo STEAM International A. Olivetti is a private four-year liceo in Parma with state parità status, opened in the 2021-2022 school year. It was created by the social enterprise Proges Educa with scientific and teaching support from Polo Giuseppe Veronesi, which opened the same liceo in Rovereto; partners include Chiesi Farmaceutici, the University of Parma, the Parma industrialists' union, Fondazione Olivetti and INDIRE. It is an experimental liceo scientifico, scienze applicate option, completed in four years instead of five: graduates take the Italian esame di Stato and sit Cambridge exams along the way. About half of the lessons are in English, and textbooks are in English too. The year is divided into terms with exam weeks and team projects commissioned by companies, the University of Parma and local authorities. The liceo is small: four classes and 74 students according to the PTOF; in September 2026, 26 new students joined the first year. The first class graduated in the 2024-2025 school year.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
English, Italian
About the fees The liceo does not publish tuition fees on its site; the PTOF says it is funded by state resources for paritarie and annual family fees (retta). The site mentions possible company-funded scholarships.
Admissions Enrolment is through the school office: information and forms by email at iscrizioni@progeseduca.it; open days are held in autumn. If applications exceed places, priorities in order are: the average mark of the first two years of middle school, then students from the Mario Lodi middle school, then the application date. The site does not directly address foreign students; the PTOF notes that very few students do not have Italian citizenship.
Stages and year groups Experimental four-year liceo scientifico, scienze applicate option, with the esame di Stato (parità since 17 June 2021, first class in the 2021-2022 school year). Timetable (hours per week, years 1-4): Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Design & Technology, ICT/Robotics/Engineering, Mathematics 4-5 hours, Arts, History 4 hours, Social Studies / Global Perspectives, Thinking Skills / Ethics, Italian and world literature 4 hours, English 4 hours, Music/Theatre/Dance, Digital Media & Design, sport, optional religion; 34-35.5 hours a week and 300 hours of work-related learning (PCTO). Cambridge International (accredited since July 2022): biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics are aligned with Cambridge syllabuses and taught up to 50% in English, as is Global Perspectives; History, Arts and Design draw on Cambridge syllabuses. Exams: IGCSE Global Perspectives or English as a Second Language at the end of year 2, IGCSE Mathematics in year 3; from year 4 preparation for A Level Mathematics and/or Global Perspectives; the liceo is also a Cambridge English preparation centre.
Address Via Brigate Julia 2, 43123 Parma (PR)
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. A four-year science liceo with up to half of science and maths in English, IGCSE Global Perspectives or English and Mathematics, and A Level preparation in year 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), 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.
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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
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: The liceo occupies floors of a building on Via Brigate Julia: 15 classrooms, science, art, robotics and engineering labs, a STEAM lab with a library, a recording studio and rooms for support lessons. There is a canteen and kitchen, a gym with an infirmary and changing rooms, a courtyard, an artificial-turf five-a-side pitch and a car park. The year is divided into terms on an 8+2+2 pattern: eight weeks of lessons and crash courses, two weeks of written and oral exams in all subjects and two weeks of team projects with companies (Action Learning Lab).
Clubs and activities: First Lego League · F1 in Schools - Green Spark · Peer-Education Science Labs · Music, Dance, Theatre · IGCSE and IELTS Courses
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 PTOF names the leadership and coordinators: the principal, the vice principal and inclusion coordinator, the guidance and work placement coordinators, the Cambridge coordinator, the anti-bullying coordinator and the equipment manager.
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 room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The liceo has an anti-bullying coordinator and a coordinator for students with special educational needs, a permanent pedagogical counselling desk run by the tutor (at least 6 hours a year per student), an infirmary next to the gym and a school-family education pact.
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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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 Value for money (6%) scored at the median95 "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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