Glarakis school complex, Educational complex in Glaraki district, Patras, Greece

The Glarakis school complex stands at 184 Palaión Patron Germanou Street in the Tampachana district, also called Glarakis, in Patras' Upper Town. The 1931 plans (General State Archives F.230/1931) show a building on three levels with 36 m² classrooms, a restaurant, infirmary, janitor's quarters, changing rooms, showers, teachers' and director's offices, a handicraft room and a food store. Two wings added toward Georgiou Roufou Street in 1990–1991 house the 10th and 12th kindergartens.

Lessons began in 1927 in temporary buildings on the Glarakis estate, at the end of Germanou Street, where the church of Agios Vasileios once stood. The complex opened in 1932, inaugurated by education minister Georgios Papandreou together with the Voud Square building. Its first name was "8th and 9th Primary Schools of Patras at Glarakis Field, 1931", with Dimitrios Tzouras and Athanasios Tzililis as the first headmasters.

The name comes from Georgios Glarakis, prefect of Achaia and Elis from 1833 to 1836, who owned the estate where the schools stand; the neighbourhood is still called Glaraki. The 8th and 9th primary schools merged in 2022 into a 14-class school named "Georgios Glarakis".

The complex stands at the end of Palaion Patron Germanou street (no. 184), in the Tampachana district also called Glaraki, beside Filikon Square; streets Palaion Patron Germanou, 3ou Syntagmatos Oreivatikou Pyrovolikou, Georgiou Roufou and Daniilidos surround it. It is a working primary school, so classrooms are closed during lessons; the exterior and the square can be seen at any time. A seismograph of the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens operates on site.

In the basement a closed air-raid shelter runs northeast to southwest between Daniilidos and 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment streets; a Technical Chamber of Western Greece study counts it among 30 shelters in use in 1940. A seismograph of the National Observatory of Athens' Geodynamic Institute now operates in the complex.