Enrollment

Enrollment

Admissions/Registration

Please see Student Admission Policy at www.acs.gr for detailed information or contact the admissions office at 210 6070 251/273 or tottasf@acs.gr

Junior Kindergarten students must be three or four years old on or before December 31 of the year they register at ACS Athens. No exceptions will be made. Junior Kindergarten is a two-year program.

Kindergarten students must be five years old on or before December 31 of the year they enter school. No exceptions are made.

Parents applying for admission must first contact the admissions office to receive guidance as to how to proceed with the application and the school visit. The school carefully reviews the student’s academic history/portfolio (K to Fifth Grade only) and conducts an assessment and interview before acceptance into the program (JK to Fifth Grade). Prior to interviews it is essential to submit student report card/s and records, samples of student work, if available, passport/s and/or birth certificate, and a residence permit with them when registering their child/children.

Financial

Each year, the school follows a student re-registration process in all grades. Parents must have no outstanding tuition and fee balances to re-register their children in the following year.  Please refer to the Parent Financial responsibility statement for a detailed explanation of financial policies.

The school has the right to restrict student participation to "non-curricular" school activities if the parents have outstanding tuition or fees for a period of more than 4 months. For example, such activities may be extracurricular after school activities and programs, school trips, participation in celebrations or ceremonies.

Parents who face temporary financial difficulties may request payment arrangements with the Financial Office or may apply for financial aid, following the school-defined rules and processes.

Force Majeure: The obligations of the School under this Agreement as stated in this handbook may be suspended immediately without notice during the periods that the School must close of Force Majeure events including, but not limited to, fire, acts of God, war, governmental action, terrorism, epidemic, pandemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, any other public health crisis, or any other event beyond the School’s control. If such an event occurs, the School’s duties and obligations under this Agreement may be suspended or postponed until such time as the School, in its sole discretion, may safely re-open. A Force Majeure event will not entitle the parent(s), guardian(s), or other financially responsible party/parties to a tuition refund. The aforementioned explicitly waive their claims of unjustifiable enrichment.

Transfers from our School

Given the transient nature of many of our families, it occasionally becomes necessary for a student to withdraw from school during the year. If your child is moving to another school, please let us know at least two weeks in advance so that we can efficiently collect and prepare needed transfer materials. Records will be mailed if the request is immediate and urgent. A forwarding address will be requested in either case. The receiving school will receive student report card/s and records. If there is anything else we could provide to ensure proper placement and success for your child, please let us know.

"Bring Your Own Device" -laptop-to-school- "BYOD" Policy

ACS Athens, committed to provide the best educational experience to its students, implements the technology policy "Bring Your Own Device - BYOD".

Starting with the Academic Year 2021-22, the school policy across the grades is as follows:

 Specifications

 Processor:

 Memory:

 Please Note: ACS Athens provides a limited number of laptops on a check-out basis, that are used primarily by individual students in emergencies. Students of grades 6-12 can check out laptops only a limited number of times per semester.

Although students are welcome to bring tablets, school related applications or assignments may require features like typing or survey type activities that aren't easily performed on such devices. Therefore, laptops are the preferred devices in ACS Athens.

Description of the BYOD program

Our primary goal regarding the use of Technology in Education at ACS Athens is:

To envision, design, materialize, support, and operate physical and virtual learning spaces, as students live in a world where they can learn anywhere, any time and from anyone.

Context of the BYOD Policy

Today's students are all digital natives and live and operate in a multimedia world. All media they use in their everyday school life is all in color and they prioritize based on visual learning. They don't just need, but they demand to have creativity in their learning process. They learn best through trial and error, and they constantly connect and collaborate. Most importantly, they expect and know how to access information that is live and interlinked.

ACS Athens Virtual

In case a situation arises, that students need to work and study from home (as we experienced during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Spring of 2020), BYOD ensures that all students are able to use tools and resources required for an uninterrupted virtual teaching and learning process. ACS Athens Virtual provides the necessary resources, platforms and methodologies that allow students to continue their study in a synchronous and asynchronous mode, for as long as it is required. For more, please see the ACS Athens Virtual story of the Spring 2020 at   https://www.acs.gr/news_events_virtual_news/ and at https://www.acs.gr/virtual/.

 Advantages of "Bring Your Own Device"(BYOD) Technology Integration model

 How BYOD can be used

 BYOD Benefits

 BYOD Educational Impact