Istituto Superiore Oppido Mamertina is a secondary  school with an IT  section  and a Lyceum. The  school is located in Oppido Mamertina , a small town in Calabria ( South Italy). It has about 55 teachers and 600 students each year. A lot of students live in rural  areas  and school is often the only meeting place for most of them. The subjects thought are the usual ones : Latin, Physics, Math, History, English, Electronics, IT, Geography... The school offers students also the opportunity to improve their skills  in some subjects with after school activities to get certifications in English( PET; FIRST) IT ( ECDL), Math , Chemistry, Historical traditions . Our students are creative and successful, have strong moral values such as friendship,  tolerance, respect and care for the whole planet and its people . They are very proud  to live in Calabria, a country rich of traditions and culture, and are willing to share them with students from other European country.

Our school has got many successes in IT  area ,it is a ECDL  and a CISCO  center Students do many projects related with their future profession and they have a lot of social activities too.

60 % of our  students are from the neighboring villages( Delianuova, Molochio ; Varapodio, Cosoleto), and more than 90 % of them uses public transport to attend school.

Our school is located in the Aspromonte mountains area  and is half an hour from the seaside and half an hour from the mountains. The nearest biggest towns are Gioia Tauro , Palmi. ( 30 minutes from school)

 and Reggio Calabria (1 hour from us). This town is famous for the museum of Magna Grecia in which are located the Riace bronzes (Italian Bronzi di Riace), also called the Riace Warriors, two famous full-size Greek bronzes of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–420 BC and found in the sea near Riace in 1972.

The nearest airports are Reggio Calabria and Lamezia Terme; Catania ( Sicily) is about 4 hours far ( there are  bus connections from Catania to messina- 2 hours yourney ) then you ave to take the ferry ( ½ an hour ) and someone will pick you up at Villa San Giovanni ( 1 hour  from  Oppido).