Eduscopio’s annual report brings to the center a topic often addressed with personal impressions rather than concrete data, relating to the effectiveness of Italian schools: are our institutions really able to prepare students for the next step?
The 2025 edition has a particular weight, because it is based on the largest sample ever collected by the Agnelli Foundation Observatory. We are talking about 1,350,000 graduates from 8,150 institutes, to which are added over two thousand students from the four-year experimental courses, a numerical base that finally allows us to grasp real changes and not simple episodic trends.
How the FGA index works
At the center of the investigation remains the FGA index, a much discussed and useful tool for understanding what happens after graduation. The evaluation focuses on the performance of the first university year, analyzing two elements: average grades and credits actually acquired, a method that allows you to verify actual preparation. If the transition to university occurs safely, it means that the school has done its job; if the path gets stuck, gaps emerge.
The best high school in Italy
In this very broad scenario, the record goes to the Liceo Giovanni Battista Ferrari of Este, in the province of Padua, which took first place nationally with an FGA index of 94.45 out of 100. A result that rewards constant work on teaching, on collaborations with the university and on an orientation that is not limited to the last months before high school graduation. The strength of the Veneto institute lies in its ability to provide solid tools, especially in the construction of the study method, which remains the key to tackling the academic years without stumbles.
Rome overtakes Milan
Among the most significant innovations of the 2025 edition, the change in balance between the large cities stands out. Rome overtakes Milan in the ranking of the best high schools, a movement that illustrates the effects of more targeted investments in teacher training and in the enrichment of extracurricular offerings.
Visconti as the best classical high school in Rome and Righi as the best scientific high school
The ranking of the best classical high schools in Rome and its province 2025
- Ennio Quirino Visconti;
- Terenzio Mamiani;
- Torquato Tasso;
- Francesco Vivona;
- Julius Caesar;
- Vittorio Emanuele II;
- Cornelius Tacitus;
- August;
- Eugenio Montale;
- De Merode.
The best scientific high schools in Rome and its province in 2025
- Giuseppe Peano;
- Camillo Cavour;
- Terenzio Mamiani;
- Stanislao Cannizzaroo;
- Amedeo Avogadro;
- Aristotle;
- Teresa Gullace Talotta;
- Tullio Levi Civita;
- Pacinotti-Archimede;
- They mention.
Milan, for its part, remains a certainty in technical institutes and scientific paths, areas in which the tradition of dialogue with the local productive fabric continues to produce high-level results.
The best classical high schools in Milan
- Giovanni Berchet
- Sacred Heart (equal)
- Giosuè Carducci
- Alexis Carrel (tie)
- Beccaria
- Manzoni
- Parini
- Setti Carraro boarding school
- Titus Livy
- Faes Città Studi (equal)
The best scientific high schools in Milan
- Alessandro Volta
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Alexis Carrel (tie)
- Elio Vittorini
- San Raffaele (equal)
- Albert Einstein
- Vittorio Veneto
- Sacred Heart (equal)
- Luigi Cremona
- Sant’Ambrogio (equal)
The growing weight of technical institutes
Technical institutes occupy an increasingly central role in the reading proposed by Eduscopio, because their effectiveness is also measured in employment terms. What matters is the rate of job placement and the coherence between studies completed and job held. The North remains in the lead, even if the 2025 edition highlighted various excellences in the Centre-South, where some institutes have been able to develop solid collaborations with local companies and professionals.
How to orient yourself in choosing a school
In addition to the rankings, Eduscopio recommends tools to help you choose a school, an important step for the future of young people. It is worth starting from personal inclinations, consulting the FGA index to understand which institutes train with greater solidity, participating in open days to get to know environments and teachers, and finally evaluating logistics, laboratories and job prospects of the various addresses.
