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Costeas-Geitonas School
Greek private school with IB · Pallini
Founded 1973, one of the largest schools in Greece, and now the operator contracted to open the first private school on this coast in 2028.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Costeas-Geitonas School or Inspired Education, receives nothing from it, and takes no fee from any school or placement adviser.
- Curriculum
- Greek, with IB programmes
- Language
- Greek and English
- Distance
- 23.2 km from Vouliagmeni 19.0 km from Glyfada, 17.5 km from Elliniko. Straight-line — the road is longer, and in term-time traffic longer again.
- Where
- Pallini, north-east Attica
- Founded
- 1973 Opened in Maroussi with 330 pupils; the Pallini campus opened in September 1981.
- Size
- Over 1,000 pupils
- Ownership
- Inspired Education Group Reported at 115 schools worldwide. In August 2024 Olympus Investment, controlled by Vasilis Laliotis, acquired 89% through a €20.2 million capital increase.
- Coming
- CGS Ellinikon, September 2028 The same operator is contracted to open the first private school on the Athens Riviera.
Costeas-Geitonas School opened in Maroussi in September 1973 with 330 pupils and moved to Pallini in 1981. It now teaches over a thousand and runs IB programmes alongside the Greek curriculum.
Why a Riviera family should read this page
Because this is the operator that signed a thirty-year lease with Lamda Development to open a school inside The Ellinikon in September 2028 — the first private school on this coast.
What that school will be is not yet published. The Pallini campus is the only guide there is, and it is a Greek school with an IB layer rather than an international school in the sense a relocating family usually means.
The ownership, which changed
In August 2024 Olympus Investment, controlled by the shipowner Vasilis Laliotis, took 89% through a €20.2 million capital increase. Inspired Education Group, Nadim Nsouli’s international operator with a reported 115 schools, subsequently took the majority package.
That is a lot of change in two years, and it is the strongest available signal about what the Elliniko school is likely to be.
The name confusion
Geitonas School at Vari is a different school, from the same 1973 founding by the Geitonas family, on the other side of Attica. Advisers use the names interchangeably. Check which is meant.
