Applications surge for top schools

Applications to Greece’s model, experimental and Onassis nationalist schools person surpassed 30,000 this year, marking a crisp emergence from past year’s 24,817 submissions and continuing a steady upward trend since the programs’ instrumentality successful 2021.

That year, exemplary schools were reintroduced and the web of exemplary and experimental schools expanded to 112 units, with exertion totals breaking records annually.

The summation successful request has coincided with a yearly emergence successful available positions and the summation implicit the past two years of Public Onassis Schools.

At the aforesaid time, a parallel marketplace for student mentation has grown, including tutoring centers, backstage lessons and study guides tailored to entranceway exams.

In 2026, a total of 30,990 applications were submitted.

Of those, 13,987 applicants competed for 1,809 spots successful 42 exemplary schools, with a success complaint of 12.9%, down from 19.6% successful 2025.

Another 3,945 applications targeted 1,786 places successful 20 Onassis Public Schools, where the success complaint roseate to 45.2% from 35.6% past year.

There were 414 applications for 513 spots successful 104 exemplary ecclesiastical schools, and 12,644 applications for 3,266 places successful 104 experimental schools, with an admittance complaint of 25.8%, astir unchanged from 25.7%.

Rising involvement is further illustrated by erstwhile years’ figures, when lone exemplary and experimental schools operated.

Applications reached 17,791 successful 2022, climbed to 19,805 successful 2023, then to 20,299 successful 2024, and reached 21,543 successful 2025.

This year’s comparable fig roseate to 26,631, reflecting a 23.6% increase.

The information underscore sustained contention for selective nationalist acquisition options, arsenic expanding capableness has not kept gait with demand, intensifying unit connected applicants and families navigating an progressively competitory admissions scenery crossed Greece’s exemplary and experimental schoolhouse system. Officials accidental trends are expected to proceed adjacent year.