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According to Ieronimos Peristianes, a private school operated in the village from 1835 to 1843 under the management of the local priest and teacher Hadjipapageorgiou, who taught in his house until 1860. Many times the lessons took place in the fields and his fee was the children's labour in them. Other teachers followed until 1879, when George Chrestides -a graduate of the Larnaca "Scolarchio" (3-form school, usually for children) -is appointed and teaches inside the small Latin chapel of "Panagia Aggeloktisti", using the mutual teaching method. Chrestides taught until 1883. However, the community's school board, which appointed the teacher, was formed in 1880. Since 1881 the British colonial government subsidised the teacher's salary and the purchase of books with 2 pounds each.

In 1908 the first community school was built in the village and so teaching in the chapel was abandoned. The Community Council has declared the first school a landmark.

The village's development and the increase of students obligated the community's inhabitants to build -in 1925 -a new building for the school with two classrooms and an office. Additions of other classrooms and auxiliary areas were done afterwards.

After the 1974 Turkish Invasion, the community hosted hundreds of families from the occupied territories and -as a result -the number of students steeply increased. The rapid development that the community has undergone in recent years and the increase of students made it impossible to meet the needs for school buildings in the same area. So, a struggle began for the raising of new school premises.

So, the opening of the new Elementary School of Kiti occurred on the 17/11/2002. The community is -justifiably- proud because this school is included among the best level schools of Cyprus. It has 14 classrooms, science, design, and technology labs, rooms for the housekeeping, art, music classes, a library, an infirmary, offices, an events/meetings hall, and other auxiliary rooms. Also, it has a regional High School and kindergartens.