Istituto Omnicomprensivo di Orte is a state institution that brings together all the schools of the comune of Orte in the province of Viterbo: from the nursery group and kindergarten to primary, middle and upper secondary school. It was created in 2016-2017 by merging the local comprehensive school and the Fabio Besta upper secondary school. The upper secondary school has lyceums (scientific, applied sciences, scientific with a biomedical focus, human sciences and human sciences with a criminology focus) and technical institutes (economics and marketing, including a sports focus, construction and territory, including interior design, transport and logistics). Lessons are in Italian. Since 2017-2018 the school has been a Cambridge International School: from primary school, separate groups study science and English with native speakers, and in upper secondary interested students study English and one track subject on Cambridge IGCSE syllabuses. In 2023-2024 the Eduscopio portal named it the best technical institute and best human sciences lyceum in the province.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Italian, English
About the fees This is a state school and tuition is free. The school does not mention contributions for the Cambridge course or exams on its open pages.
Admissions Enrolment in year 1 of upper secondary follows the state online procedure (Iscrizioni online) after middle school, within the dates of the annual ministry circular, usually in November. All scientific lyceum students may additionally enrol in the Cambridge course. The school is the only one in the comune and admits all local children; upper secondary students also come from neighbouring comuni. The open pages of the website do not mention selection for the Cambridge course or the admission of foreign students.
Stages and year groups Grades sezione primavera, scuola dell'infanzia, 1-5 primaria, 1-3 secondaria di primo grado, 1-5 secondaria di secondo grado. Italian curriculum ending in the esame di Stato. First cycle - nursery groups, kindergarten (play-based English with a native speaker), primary and middle school with morning and full-day schedules. Upper secondary: liceo scientifico, scienze applicate, liceo scientifico with a biomedical focus (ministry pilot programme), liceo scienze umane and its criminology focus; technical institutes Amministrazione, Finanza e Marketing (also with a sports focus), Costruzioni, Ambiente e Territorio (also with interior design), Trasporti e Logistica. Cambridge (per the 2023-2024 document): in primary and middle school Cambridge groups - science with a native speaker and afternoon English with a native speaker; in upper secondary - IGCSE English and a track subject in English: Biology in year 1 and Physics in years 2-3 of the scientific lyceum, Geography in the human sciences lyceum, Accounting in the economics institute.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge IGCSE. Upper-school students can opt for IGCSE English plus one subject in English: Biology and Physics in the science liceo, Geography in the humanities liceo, Accounting in the economics institute.
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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The only school institution in the comune of Orte: kindergartens, nursery groups, primary schools in Orte and Orte Scalo, middle school and the upper secondary school on Via del Campo Sportivo. A school bus serves students. Upper secondary students also come from neighbouring comuni in the province of Viterbo, Umbria and Sabina.
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 website names the head; Cambridge courses are taught by the school's teachers together with selected native English-speaking teachers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 data55 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 data55 "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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Orte, Italy · est. 2016 · State