Athens Community Unit School District 213 history

The hospital is closed in 1937 following their deaths.

Concerns Expressed About the Athens Unified Public Schools in 1949 In the meeting which began a 7:30 p. m. and lasted well beyond midnight, a number of concerns were expressed about the inadequate facilities.

In December 1960, the ACS School Board obtained funds under Public Law 480 to purchase land in Halandri, then a sleepy farming area, and began construction of a new school facility.

The Class of 1962 was the first to graduate from the new facility.

In 1964, the first two stories of the current Annex building were erected to house an elementary school.

In 1968, yet another branch of ACS Athens was established on the island of Rhodes, for the approximately thirty children of Voice of America personnel stationed there.

In 1974, the school’s directors committed themselves to a development plan which resulted in the building of the structural bridge, containing science labs, administrative offices and a conference room.

The Boarding Unit, originally housed in a hotel near the airport in Glyfada, opened in 1981.

When, in 1983, the Middle States Association had expanded its accrediting authority to cover elementary and middle schools, ACS received accreditation for its K-12 program.

As a major curricular innovation, ACS Athens established the ACS Writing Project to promote the teaching of writing as a tool for learning across the disciplines in 1985.

In 1986, ACS Athens closed the Kifissia Elementary School, and all school operations were consolidated on the Halandri campus, which had been expanded yet again with the building of new computer labs adjacent to the library.

In 2000, as a result of this work, the ACS faculty proposed and the Board of Education approved implementation of the International Baccalaureate Primary and Middle Years Programs in grades JK-10.