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EDUCATION
INSTITUTES
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.
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