Mandoulides Schools

Mandoulides Schools
Location
Thessaloniki, Greece
Information
Type	Independent Private school
Established	1978
Head of school	Ekaterini Mantoulidou
Faculty	217
Enrollment	1,818 total
Average class size	23 students
Student to teacher ratio	9:1
Color(s)	Blue and Yellow
Athletics	11 sports
Website	www.mandoulides.gr

Mandoulides Schools today constitute a community for education, culture and sports; one that is acknowledged throughout Greece. They offer a private, co-educational day schooling for Greek students from Kindergarten through to twelfth grade. They run programs at the following levels: pre-school training, primary and secondary education, as well as preparation for tertiary-level education at Greek, American and British universities.

History

Evangelos Mandoulides, a professor of ancient and modern Greek, founded Mandoulides Schools back in 1978 after quitting Anatolia College. The school started as a traditional K6 school. In 1991 Evangelos Mandoulides decided to expand the school and he added a new campus and grades 6 through 12.

Description

Mandoulides Schools include a Kindergarten, a Primary, a Junior and Senior High School (Gymnasium and Lyceum).The four schools are situated on two separate campuses just outside Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. Mandoulides Schools operate based on the ISO 9001:2008.

Placements

The school prides itself on its academic performance. The graduating class has a high annual success rate in the highly competitive Greek university entrance examinations.

Furthermore, the school places students in top colleges in the United States of America and the UK. Since 1994 high school graduates have attended top U.S and U.K colleges and received full or partial scholarships.(Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Duke, Amherst, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial).

Extra Curricular

Mandoulides Schools offers extra curricular activities like the NASA Space Academy, the Gothia Cup, the English and Adventure Camp, Model United Nations : the Hague, Boston, Berlin, Athens.

Facilities

Facilities on both campuses include:

• Theater
• Library
• Faculty Rooms
• Classrooms
• Computer, Physics, Biology and Chemistry labs
• Electronic interactive boards
• Data projectors in classrooms
• e-learning site available to teachers, students and parents (e-mandoulides)
• WiFi Hot Spots covering most campus area
• Art and Music rooms
• Center for Career and Counseling services
• Infirmary
• Cafeteria
• Press room
• Multiple service sports center
• Sauna
• Indoor and outdoor basketball courts
• Table tennis rooms
• Tennis courts
• Volleyball courts
• Soccer and handball fields
• Weights room
• Zoo

Athletics

Athletic competition has long been a part of the Mandoulides Schools tradition. As early as 1988, professional table tennis was being played on school grounds.Mandoulides Schools follow the old adage 'Mens sana in corpore sano'. The school basketball team won the World Senior High School Championship in Israel (May 1999)^[1] and gained Second Place in April 2005 (Poland) ^[2] and Third Place in May 2009 (Turkey) ^[3] in the World Championship. Notable (members of the Greek national team) school athletes were: Panagiotis Sloukas, Nikos Zisis, Sophoclis Schortsianitis. (drafted by the L.A Clippers)

The school offers various sports teams like:

• Badminton
• Basketball
• Handball
• Hockey
• Ski
• Soccer
• Table tennis
• Tae Kwon Do
• Tennis
• Track and Field events
• Volleyball

References

1. ^ http://www.isfsports.org/sports/sportsdefault.asp?id=293
2. ^ http://www.isfsports.org/sports/default.asp?id=315
3. ^ http://www.isfsports.org/sports/default.asp?id=1492

External links

• Mandoulides Schools home page