The File
Geitonas School
Greek school with the IB Diploma, ages 3 to 18 · Vari, Athens Riviera
The closest private school to this coast by a distance — two and a half kilometres from Vouliagmeni — and an IB World School running the Diploma Programme alongside the Greek Lyceum.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Geitonas School, receives nothing from it, and takes no fee from any school or placement adviser.
- Curriculum
- Greek, with the IB Diploma Programme An IB World School. The Diploma runs at sixth form alongside the Greek Lyceum; everything below it is the Greek curriculum.
- Language
- Greek, with the IB Diploma taught in English
- Distance
- 2.5 km from Vouliagmeni 5.6 km from Glyfada, 8.2 km from Elliniko. Straight-line — the road is longer, and in term-time traffic longer again.
- Where
- Varis–Varkizas Avenue at Agion Apostolon, Vari
- Founded
- 1973 By the Geitonas family. The Vari campus opened in August 1995.
- Also
- UNESCO Associated School and a Cambridge English exam preparation centre
Geitonas School sits on the Varis–Varkizas avenue at Vari, founded in 1973 by the Geitonas family and on this campus since August 1995. It teaches the Greek curriculum from nursery upwards and is an IB World School, running the Diploma Programme at sixth form.
The number that matters
Two and a half kilometres from Vouliagmeni. Five and a half from Glyfada. That is a school run measured in minutes rather than in a motorway, and the piece on why the school decides the address explains what that is worth over a decade.
Greek school, international exit
The Diploma Programme is the point most families miss when they write this school off as the local option. It is the same qualification offered at the International School of Athens and Campion, and universities in the UK, the US and Europe read it identically wherever it was taken.
So a child educated eight minutes from Kavouri can leave with the same exit document as a child driven to Kifissia and back for twelve years. That is not a small finding, and almost nobody on this coast states it.
What it costs you
Ten years of Greek. Everything below sixth form is the Greek curriculum in Greek, and a child arriving at eleven with no Greek is arriving somewhere genuinely difficult. Arriving at five is a different proposition entirely.
If English-medium from the start is the requirement, St Lawrence at Koropi and Verita on the coast itself are the near options, and everything else is north.
And the name
There is a second school with the Geitonas name — Costeas-Geitonas at Pallini, from the same 1973 founding, on the other side of Attica and now under international ownership. They are routinely confused. Check which one an adviser means.
