This report provides an overview of primary education in Cyprus. Section 1 delineates: (1) official aims; (2) responsibility for the organization of primary education at national, regional, local, and school levels; (3) links between pre-primary and primary education and between primary and lower secondary education; (4) number of primary school pupils and teachers; (5) arrangements for grouping pupils and official class sizes; (6) length of the school day, the school week, and the school year; (7) major areas of the primary school curriculum; (8) main methods of pupil assessment; (9) arrangements for the initial and in-service training of teachers; (10) support services; and (11) institutional links between the primary school, parents, and the community. Section 2 briefly identifies problems, trends, and intended changes or reforms. Section 3 provides bibliographic information about a study of the primary school curriculum and a study of teacher opinions of leadership qualities needed by school principals and inspectors. (RH)