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Piraeus, Greece · est. 1922 · Private
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International School of Piraeus (ISP) is a private bilingual school in central Piraeus for children aged 2.5 to 12: nursery, kindergarten and primary. Its history begins in 1922, when the educators Marika Petraki and Konstantinos Valsamidis opened a private school in Piraeus; in 2013 the founders' granddaughters moved it to the International Baccalaureate programme and made it bilingual (Greek and English), and in 2015 the school received IB authorisation. ISP is the first school in Piraeus with the IB PYP; the PYP is combined with the Greek national curriculum. The languages of instruction are Greek and English: under the school's language policy Greek is a language of instruction for everyone, English gets 7 hours a week, and PE, art and music are taught in English twice a week; each early years class has a Greek and an English teacher. The same family of schools includes International Metropolitan School in Alimos (middle and high school) and Sporty's kindergarten in Elliniko.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
2.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Greek, English
Languages taught
French, German, Spanish
Admissions The school admits children of Greek and foreign nationals living in Athens and Piraeus and considers applicants "equally, regardless of nationality, religion, gender, color or special educational needs". Procedure: an interest form, a screening and assessment with the Child Developmental Specialist (SEN Coordinator), a meeting with a teacher if needed, then registration on the 4schools platform, documents and a deposit. Required: a medical certificate, photographs, a birth certificate, passport, identity card (for Greeks) and a visa for non-Greek and non-EU citizens; foreign students bring a birth certificate officially translated into Greek, and previous school records are translated into English. The decision considers the assessment, the Greek and English language profile, the child's development and available places. Admissions for September start in January; mid-year applicants may take a test in Greek, English and mathematics or have an interview with the PYP coordinator. Children who do not know English or Greek get extra lessons (EAL and GAL).
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery - Grade 6. Nursery (2.5-3 years), KG1 (3-4 years), KG2 (4-5 years), KG3 (5-6 years) and primary Grade 1-6 (6-11 years). The whole school follows the IB Primary Years Programme combined with the Greek national curriculum; grade 6 students prepare the PYP Exhibition. The middle and high school of the same family of schools is International Metropolitan School.
Address Praxitelous 66-70, 18532 Piraeus
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the Primary Years Programme at the school. The secondary and upper school of the same family of schools is International Metropolitan School.
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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
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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
✓Librarylibrary, open on weekdays 9:00-16:30
✓Cateringon-site kitchen and dining hall, canteen
✓School transportschool buses in three zones from Piraeus to the southern suburbs
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: a building in central Piraeus
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 school's teachers, Greek and international, attend IB and ECIS workshops and conferences every year and in-school training; the school allocates considerable funds to professional development. Each early years class has two teachers, Greek- and English-speaking. The school has a special educational needs team: a SEN coordinator, a speech therapist, a psychologist and a play therapist. The number of teachers and class sizes are not published.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellorpsychologist, speech therapist and play therapist in the SEN team
✓Child protection policypublished inclusion and SEN, academic integrity and complaints policies
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school calls itself all-inclusive and enrols children who need learning support; it has a team of special educational needs specialists including a psychologist. Parents collect children at a designated area. The school says nothing about security or CCTV.
Reviews
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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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median73 "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 7 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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