Introduction Today it has been observed in several countries that immigrant students do not have an academic performance equivalent to that of their native classmates (Pisa, 2003). This essay is about the different academic performance of immigrant and Pontic Greek students in Greece. The first section of this essay is about immigration to Greece and explores the reasons for the increasing immigration to Greece, the second explores Greek attitudes towards immigration, while the next section highlights racism and xenophobia in Greek society. Section four concerns the ethnocentric school curriculum in this country, while the next section concerns the differences in socioeconomic status and cultural capital towards these two immigrant groups. Finally, the next two sections concern intercultural education in Greece and its problems. Immigration to Greece Before going into the procedure of analyzing our topic it is obvious that we should explore the fact of immigration to Greece. In the first decades after World War II, many Greeks left their country and immigrated to many more economically developed countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany and Australia, because unemployment and poverty rates in Greece were extremely high (Katsikas & Politou, 2005), however, Greece nowadays has become a country where many immigrants from different countries come, in the hope that Greece will offer them the opportunity to have a better life (Triantafyllidoy & Veikou, 2002). Mediterranean countries have become a magnet for many immigrants, replacing traditional immigration countries such as Germany and France (Brenner & Fertig, 2006). Furthermore, immigrants in Greece etc...... middle of paper ......t media, social problems and immigration policy of Greece promote racist attitudes towards immigrants (Hatziprokopiou, 2005). It is obvious that the reproduction of racist beliefs and stereotypes has an effect on academic performance. As mentioned above, Pontic Greeks are given a better reception due to their “Greekness” (Triantafyllidoy & Veikou, 2002), as a result, Pontic Greek students do not face racist stereotypes in education, this problem gives us helps to understand that they are more likely to have better academic performance than other immigrant students. Of course, Greece's homogeneity and racist attitude towards immigrants are not the only reasons that have an effect on academic performance, the next section is about another important reason that drives differences in academic performance, this is the curriculum school..