← Back to the rankingLiceo STEAM International Rovereto
Rovereto, Italy · est. 2018 · Private
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Liceo STEAM International in Rovereto is Italy's first four-year STEAM liceo, opened in the 2018-2019 school year under an experimental ministry authorisation. It is a private school with state parità status, run by Polo Giuseppe Veronesi - a Rovereto education provider that grew out of a post-war metalworking school and today runs vocational training up to higher technical (ITS) level. Four years instead of five: a two-year foundation stage modelled on the British GCSE and a two-year advanced stage modelled on A Level with 300 hours of work placement; the school year is 36 weeks and 1224 hours, five days a week, with at least half of the teaching in English. Students finish with the Italian esame di Stato of the liceo scientifico, scienze applicate option, and along the way take Cambridge exams: IGCSE English as a Second Language after year 2, IGCSE Mathematics and Combined Science in year 3, and optionally IELTS and AS/A Level Mathematics. The liceo gained Cambridge accreditation in July 2018. Subjects are grouped into five areas: science, technology, engineering, arts and humanities, mathematics; there is much project work with Trentino companies, robotics, debate, Erasmus and trips abroad.
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; scholarships are awarded by competition.
Admissions The site does not publish admission requirements or procedures: there is an information request form and a guidance section for middle school students. The liceo has parità status, so graduates receive the state Italian diploma. The PTOF lists welcoming and integrating foreign students among its aims, but gives no specific rules for their enrolment. Scholarships are awarded by competition; the next call is to be approved by the board.
Stages and year groups Experimental four-year liceo scientifico, scienze applicate option, with the esame di Stato. The first two-year stage is a foundation stage modelled on the British GCSE; the second is an advanced stage modelled on A Level, with 300 hours of work placement (half during term, half in summer). Areas: Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics), Technology (Design & Technology), Engineering (ICT, Robotics, Engineering), Art & Humanities (Arts, History, Social Studies / Global Perspectives, Thinking Skills / Ethics), Mathematics, Language & Performance (Italian and world literature, English, German in the first stage, music, theatre, dance, digital media, sport). 34 hours a week. Cambridge International: biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics are aligned with the scienze applicate curriculum and Cambridge syllabuses and taught up to 50% in English; English is 4-6 hours a week. Exams: IGCSE English as a Second Language at the end of year 2, IGCSE Mathematics and IGCSE Combined Science in year 3, optionally IELTS, CAE or TOEFL and AS/A Level Mathematics in years 3-4. History, Global Perspectives, Arts and Design draw on Cambridge syllabuses.
Address Via Madonna del Monte 6, 38068 Rovereto (TN) (STEAM Campus)
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 English as a Second Language, Mathematics and Combined Science, and optional AS/A Level Mathematics.
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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Debate · Philosophy Café · Science Café · Artificial Intelligence · First Lego League · Music/Theatre/Dance · Model Aircraft Workshop · Fab Lab Prototyping · Boxing Lab · Barcavelando (sailing) · Mathematics Olympiad · Student Clubs
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Teachers are qualified to teach their subjects or have professional experience; they are selected for their commitment to innovation, teamwork and fluent English.
Only the principal is named on the site.
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 policynot stated on the website
The building has an infirmary. Students follow rules on rights and duties, a mobile phone policy and a school-family co-responsibility pact, in Italian and English. Polo Veronesi's quality management system is ISO 9001 certified.
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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 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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