← Back to homePierce - The American College of Greece
Aghia Paraskevi, Greece · est. 1875 · Private
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Pierce is the school of The American College of Greece, a Greek private school with the national curriculum and American accreditation. It was founded in 1875 in Smyrna as the American College for Girls; after 1922 it moved to Greece and since 1965 it has been on its campus in Aghia Paraskevi. The school says it became "the first school in Greece to follow a national curriculum while also holding American accreditation" (MSA, November 2022). Lessons follow the Greek state curriculum: Gymnasium, Lyceum, preparation for the Panhellenic exams; English is taught intensively in streamed classes, and the Kindergarten is described as bilingual. Since 2016 the IB Diploma Programme has run as a separate track in the upper grades. The school has two campuses: East Campus in Spata (since 2022, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Elementary School and all of the Gymnasium) and the historic campus in Aghia Paraskevi (Lyceum and IB).
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $11 049–15 703 a year
9 780–13 900 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Admits from
4 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Greek, English
Registration fee
≈ $339
300 EUR
About the fees Fees from the school's schedule: for 2026-2027, Pre-K and Kindergarten with meals 11770 EUR, Grades 1-2 10470 EUR, Grades 3-6 and Gymnasium 10160 EUR; Lyceum and IB fees for 2026-2027 are not yet published, for 2025-2026 the Lyceum cost 9780 EUR and IB1-IB2 13900 EUR a year.
Admissions A' Gymnasium (170 new students for the 2027-2028 school year) and interim Gymnasium and Lyceum classes admit by entrance examination in English, Modern Greek and Mathematics; "Students are not admitted to C Lyceum". Grade 1 admission is by application and a family meeting with the counseling team, with priority for siblings and children of alumni; Grades 3-6 take entrance exams in May in English, Greek Language and Mathematics. "Admission to the Pierce IBDP is open to all Pierce and non-Pierce Grade 10 students (A Lyceum)": internal candidates need at least 16 out of 20 in English and Mathematics, external candidates 18 in English and 17 in Mathematics. The admissions pages say nothing about foreign students or citizenship.
Stages and year groups Grades PK4-12. Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten (ages 4-5), Elementary School (Grades 1-6), Gymnasium (A', B', C'), Lyceum (A', B', C') preparing for the Panhellenic exams and the Greek Apolytirio; in parallel, in Grades 11-12, the IB Diploma Programme (IB1-IB2), whose graduates who meet the Ministry requirements also receive the equivalent of the Greek Apolytirion.
Address Gravias 6, 153 42 Aghia Paraskevi; East Campus: Zinonos St., 19 004 Spata
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeMSA · accreditationThe IB register lists the Diploma Programme at the school. The school is accredited by MSA (Middle States Association), listed as Active; MSA lists its East Campus in Spata separately, and it is the junior site of the same school. In years 11 and 12 students choose between the Greek lyceum and the IB Diploma.
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: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
One of the oldest American accreditations, working since 1887 in more than a hundred countries and linked to the Office of Overseas Schools of the US State Department. It judges the school as an institution across twelve areas, including finances, governance, premises and student support.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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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
Average IB score
38 (world average 30.88)
Exam results IB Diploma, May 2026: average 38 out of 45, 100% completion, 28% scored 40 or more, 83% scored 35 or more. Panhellenic exams 2026: 33.4% of students scored above 18 out of 20, three times the national average.
Where leavers go: National Technical University of Athens · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · Athens University of Economics and Business · University of Patras · Democritus University of Thrace · University of Piraeus
After the 2026 Panhellenic exams Lyceum graduates entered Greek universities: 41 in engineering (25 at the National Technical University of Athens), 16 in law, 25 in economics and business, 11 in medicine, pharmacy and dentistry. The school does not publish a university list for IB graduates.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Clubs and activities: Robotics · Drama Club · Chess · Forensics · Rhetoric · Stop Motion Animation · Lego Club · Introduction to Ancient Greek · Greek Drama Club · English Drama Club · Orchestra · Choir · Folk Dances · Greek Rhetoric · Jewish and Hebrew Studies · Engineering Academy · Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy · Mathematics Academy · Physics Academy · Model United Nations
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 room
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a School Bullying section with a procedure for handling an incident and an annual Respect Day; it publishes Ministry of Citizen Protection guidelines for students and parents (domestic violence, sexual abuse, online safety). Counseling and health services are in place.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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.
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