Moraitis School
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| Privately owned, Anonymous society | |
| Industry | Education: Primary Education, Secondary Education |
| Founded | 1936 by Charles Beregean -- also known as Berzan as Πρότυπον Λύκειον Αθηνών (adopted current name in 1976) |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
| Website | http://www.moraitis-school.com/ |
The Moraitis School (Greek: Σχολή Μωραΐτη, Scholi Moraiti) is a co-educational private school in Athens, Greece. It is located in Psychico, a suburb north of the Greek capital. In student population terms, the Moraitis school is one of the largest private schools in Athens. Its teaching aims at university entry.
It has 1700 students and 240 teachers in kindergarten, primary, middle school and high school.
The school was founded in 1936 by Charles Beregean, a mathematician, under the name Standard Lykeion of Athens (Greek: Πρότυπον Λύκειον Αθηνών, Protipon Likion Athinón). It moved to its current location in 1952, when ownership was transferred to Antonis Moraitis – whose name the school has adopted since 1976. After Antonis Moraitis' death in 1981, property and administration of the school was transferred to his daughters, Chrysanthi Moraiti-Kartali (middle and high school) and Katerina Moraiti (primary school, until her death in 1996). Today the school is run by Chrisanthi Moraiti-Kartali, Giorgos Kasimatis, Antonis Kartalis and Giorgos Kartalis. The school proclaims 12 fundamental principles (Dodecalogue, Greek: Δωδεκάλογος, Dodekálogos), ranging from religious tolerance to the equivalent of Becket's "fail again; fail better" premise, as a guide for all its members.
Almost all of the school's students are enrolled to universities in Greece and abroad, upon graduation. For their final two years students at Moraitis can follow either the Greek educational system curriculum or the International Baccalaureate programme.
About 16% of Moraitis students achieve a grade of more than 19/20 in the Pan-Hellenic Examinations, with about 50% achieving over 17/20. In 2013, the average grade of Moraitis School IB students was 36/45 (compared to a global average of 29), with two students achieving a grade of 45/45 and five 44/45. The average grade for each subject the school offers was higher than the global average.
Students from the Moraitis School IB have been accepted at institutions around the world including the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Imperial College, Bristol University, the University of Edinburgh, University of Bath, the University of Warwick and the University of York in the UK; Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, Penn, Michigan in the USA; Sciences Po, Sorbonne and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France.
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