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In 1890 the school counts 36 nuns (13 Tinian women 13 French women and the rest of other nationalities) and 102 girls (54 Catholic and 48 Orthodox). During the period 1910-1930, which was a period of great prosperity for the School, more than 300 intern schoolgirls from all over the Greek world attended it. During the Second World War the school was closed down, because it was not only difficult, but quite unsafe for the schoolgirls to attend it as well. After the war, the reopening was difficult. The islanders abandonned their islands looking for work in the capital or in the big cities. Since there were no schoolgirls, the School accepted primary school children only till 1984. However in the 1960s, a school of hand-made carpets and weaving started operating on the premises, in an effort to offer employment to the girls of Tinos. In the early 1990′s this was closed down too. Today, the four Ursuline sisters who serve in Tinos have been transferred to Chora, where they are engaged mainly in pastoral ministry and human support.
There is no doubt that the School of Loutra experienced glorious days in the past. Today, part of the huge building complex has been bestowed to house the Public Elementary School in the newly established municipality of Exombourgo for the children of the villages of Kato Meria. The rest of the building, under the care of the Ursuline Sisters, has been transformed to museum, where visitors can admire the evidence for the tremendous work done in a period of more than one hundred years: photographs, school registers, laboratories (physics, chemistry, natural history, music, painting, sewing), the Pharmacy of the School, the infirmary, remainings of the schoolgirls hand-work and many others.

source: www.tinos.gr