From Milan to Palermo, here are the best high schools and technical institutes in Italy: city by city tables

Change at the top of the best classical high schools in Milan, with Giovanni Berchet taking the place of Quasimodo di Magenta in the university results of its former students. Instead, the first two steps of the podium for science remain unchanged, occupied by the Alessandro Volta-Leonardo Da Vinci tandem. This is according to the 2025 edition of the Eduscopio of the Agnelli Foundation, which again this year identifies the institutes that prepare students best for university or work. City by city and address by address.

The working group coordinated by Martino Bernardi analysed the data of 1,355,000 Italian high school graduates from 8,150 schools in three successive school years (2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22). A tool that Fondazione Agnelli chairman Andrea Gavosto described as "a resource accessible to all, designed to allow students and families to compare schools within their area, so as to identify the one that best seems to respond to the profile and expectations of each boy and girl". And which, from 2014 to date, has been used by 3 million unique users with 16 million pages consulted.

The criteria for segmenting the best schools are always the same. For the university, the first-year careers of 811,000 graduates who matriculated in 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 were examined. Both in terms of exams passed and grade point average. The result is an indicator called Fga, which weighs the speed of the course (percentage of university credits obtained) and the quality of learning (average exam grade) 50/50, and which is flanked by the percentage of graduates in good standing, i.e. how many students enrolled in the first year reached their diploma five years later without flunking.

In Rome, first two places equal to 2024 for the classical (Visconti and Mamiani) and alternation at the scientific where behind Righi we find San Giovanni Battista (equal) instead of Volterra (state).

In Naples, on the other hand, Convitto Vittorio Emanuele II retains first place among the scientific high schools, while it is overtaken by Pitagora of Pozzuoli among the classics.