Greek School is a Ministry of the Church - Tuition does not reflect the value of the classes provided. 

Tuition for proper Greek (Koene) is free. (a donation for the needs of Greek School directly to the teacher or a donation to the Church on behalf of the Greek School is appreciated)

Middle and High School Students of the Koene will be taught enough to participate in the National Greek Exam with subsequent opportunity for a show of Academic Excellence and an opportunity for Scholarship.

The National Greek Examination in 2025 enrolled 1580 students from 166 high schools, colleges, universities and home schools in the US and around the world. Of these students, 52% earned purple, blue, red, or green ribbons. The battery of six examinations consisted of four Attic Greek exams (Introduction, Beginning, Intermediate, Prose) and two Homeric Greek exams (Odyssey and Iliad). In 2026, high-school seniors who earn purple or blue ribbons in the Attic Prose exam will be eligible to apply for one scholarship in the amount of $2,000, renewable for four years. The scholarship will be paid to the winner’s college or university on condition that s/he earn six credits of Greek during the school year. The winner will be selected by the NLE/NGE Scholarship Committee. Teachers of eligible students will receive application forms via email in mid-May. Winners will be announced at the ACL Institute in June, and notified directly thereafter by mail.

It is important that no-one who wants to learn Greek should be discouraged by financial considerations. Please, talk to Father  regarding a scholarship. Scholarship recipients are required to have good attendance. Lack of good attendance or serious effort to learn will result in loss of scholarship and inadmission into future classes.  

Modern Greek classes for adults with good attendance are designed to complete college course level content. The first beginner's class completed levels A1 to A2 in a year and is working towards completing level B1.  (sufficient to register into a Greek speaking program at a Greek University). The goal is to achieve complete fluency (level Γ2) within 3 years of study for teenagers and adults. 

Requests for private lessons are frequent. The instructor has very limited availability, if at all. Private lesson rates, outside the Church context start at a $1500 commitment per semester for serious students only, to achieve the same goals.

Modern Greek classes for children, grade 2 and older will follow a four year program using the Archdiocese books and NeoHel's Asterias method to achieve level A2 competence - which upon examination will give them exemption from language study requirements in College. Upon completion of the children's program, students can register to the teenager/adult classes to further their knowledge of Greek. The exposure to Greek at an early age helps deeper learning of the language. Playgroups and activity-based learning is encouraged at home at a younger age and through Greek School organized group activities for children younger than second grade. 

Learning cannot take place with lapses in attendance - children forget faster than they learn and they do learn fast. Notify instructor of planned absences early in the semester with alternatives for makeup classes for your children. With small class sizes lapses in attendance are disruptive for the whole class not just for the one child that has missed class. Thank you for your commitment and understanding.

Tuition is calculated on the basis of $30/person/session ($15per instruction hour) from October to May for stewards/catechumens of Greek Orthodox Churches. There is a fifty percent tuition reduction for a second family member of the same household. Please make tuition payments through the payment form. In case tuition causes hardship, please, contact Father. The cost of your own textbooks / instruction packets will be incurred additionally. 

GREEK SHAPES ORTHODOXY

The structure of the Greek language is not incidental to Orthodox Christianity; it stands at the heart of its theology, worship, and spiritual self-understanding. Orthodox doctrine is not merely expressed in Greek but is, in many respects, formed through Greek—through its verbal aspect, participial density, middle voice, optative mood, and precision of grammatical distinction. These features do not ornament theology; they carry it.

When Orthodox texts are severed from Greek and rendered exclusively through English translation, a grammatical collapse occurs. Nuanced distinctions of aspect, agency, reverence, and sacramental realism—carefully preserved in Greek—are flattened or lost altogether. Translation necessarily replaces grammatical precision with interpretive paraphrase. Over time, this shift from grammar to interpretation fosters attitudes toward doctrine, Scripture, and worship that prioritize individual understanding over inherited form—an outlook historically characteristic of Schismatic and Protestant approaches to theology.

This is not a question of preference, ethnicity, or nostalgia. It is a question of linguistic architecture. Orthodox tradition depends on a language capable of sustaining mystery without reducing it, reverence without vagueness, and doctrine without simplification. No translation—however sincere—can fully substitute for the grammatical logic that gave rise to the tradition itself.

Therefore, there is no path to maintaining Orthodox theological continuity that bypasses the Greek language. To abandon Greek is not simply to change a medium of expression; it is to alter the very framework through which Orthodox faith has been articulated, guarded, and transmitted.

The Divine Liturgy distributes meaning across verb forms with precision: indicatives confess truth, participles define identity, infinitives name holy actions, subjunctives express shared hope, imperatives ask boldly for mercy, and the optative alone speaks with trembling before judgment.

This grammar is not stylistic—it is doctrinal architecture.

The Greek Bible is Authoritative  

Not only were the Books of the New Testament and the corpus of the works of the Church Fathers written in Greek, but the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament holds a unique and foundational place in the life of the Church. It is the oldest complete translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, produced by Jewish scholars between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, well before the time of Christ. It was the Bible of the early Church, the text most often quoted in the New Testament, and the version received and preserved within Orthodox worship and theology.

Modern discoveries have only strengthened its importance. The Dead Sea Scrolls, dating from the centuries immediately before and after Christ, show that many Hebrew biblical texts circulating at that time agree more closely with the Septuagint than with later forms of the Hebrew Bible. This confirms that the Septuagint was not a loose paraphrase, but a faithful witness to very ancient textual traditions.

By contrast, the Masoretic Text, used in Protestant Translations while valuable and carefully preserved, is known to us in its complete form only from medieval manuscripts, with the earliest full codices dating to the 9th–10th centuries AD. This means that the Masoretic tradition reflects a later stage in the textual history of the Bible.

For the Orthodox Church, this is not a matter of competition or criticism, but of continuity. The Septuagint represents the scriptural world in which Christ taught, the Apostles preached, and the Church first prayed. To read in Greek is to remain anchored in the earliest received biblical tradition of Christianity.