The File
ACS Athens
American school, ages 4 to 18 · Halandri
The American school, with the IB Diploma and Advanced Placement alongside a US high-school diploma. The obvious answer for a family heading back to the United States.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with ACS Athens, receives nothing from it, and takes no fee from any school or placement adviser.
- Curriculum
- American US high-school diploma, with the IB Diploma and Advanced Placement offered alongside.
- Language
- English
- Distance
- 22.5 km from Vouliagmeni 17.2 km from Glyfada, 15.1 km from Elliniko. Straight-line — the road is longer, and in term-time traffic longer again.
- Where
- Halandri, northern suburbs
ACS Athens is the American school in the northern suburbs, at Halandri, teaching the American curriculum in English with the IB Diploma and Advanced Placement available alongside the US high-school diploma.
The transcript question
A US diploma read by a US admissions office needs no explaining. Everything else on this list does, to some degree, and while good universities everywhere read all of these qualifications fluently, the friction is not zero.
Choosing the curriculum before the school is the rule, and this is the clearest case of it: the answer follows from where the child will apply, not from the campus.
And the drive
From this coast it is a cross-city run in the wrong direction. For a household that has already bought in Vouliagmeni that is often the fact that ends the conversation, whatever the school is like.
