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Deutsche Schule Athen
German school, founded 1896 · Maroussi
A German overseas school running since 1896, and the route to the German Abitur without leaving Attica.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Deutsche Schule Athen, receives nothing from it, and takes no fee from any school or placement adviser.
- Curriculum
- German A recognised German overseas school.
- Language
- German, with Greek
- Distance
- 25.9 km from Vouliagmeni 20.3 km from Glyfada, 18.0 km from Elliniko. Straight-line — the road is longer, and in term-time traffic longer again.
- Where
- Maroussi, northern suburbs
- Founded
- 1896 The oldest foreign school on this list by some distance.
The Deutsche Schule Athen has been running since 1896 and sits at Maroussi in the northern suburbs, teaching the German curriculum as a recognised German overseas school.
The only one of these that is really about language
Every school on this list makes a curriculum claim. This one, along with the French lycée, makes a language claim first: the working language is German, and a child who does not have it arrives at a genuine disadvantage.
For a German or Austrian or Swiss household relocating here, that is the whole point and the decision is straightforward. For anyone else it is a large commitment with a narrow payoff.
And language matters more on this coast than anyone will tell you — though the language that opens doors here is Greek.
