A BRIEF HISTORY OF PINEWOOD

Pinewood School was founded by the Pinewood School Association as an American elementary/middle school for Kindergarten through Grade 8 in 1950. For its first three years, the school operated on the campus of Anatolia College before moving to the American Farm School in 1953. In 1962, an upper school for Grades 9-12, named Thessaloniki International High School, was founded, and over the next two years a new building large enough for all grade levels K-12 was constructed on the Anatolia campus.

In 1973, Pinewood was granted permission by the Greek government to accept students from any and all countries outside of Greece. In the fall of 1996, a Pre-Kindergarten program for three and four-year-olds was added and the school  is now allowed by the Greek government to enroll Greek students in Grades Pre- K, K and 7-12.

With a comprehensive Pre K-grade 12 academic program and international focus, the school's name was changed to Pinewood American International School-Thessaloniki in 2007. Today, it enrolls a student body of around 210 boys and girls from approximately 35 different countries.

Pinewood began a new and exciting chapter in our school's history when our new campus opened August 2008. The 2009-10 school year marked our 60th year of service to the international community of Thessaloniki with many commemorative events scheduled throughout the year.