| P a g e - 54 International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies Website:https://www.ijahss.in/ ISSN(Online): 2582-3647 Volume 3; Issue 6; Nov-Dec 2021; Page No. 54-59 Open Access Original Paper Mapping student performance towards higher education Vasileios Apostolidis 1 ; Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos 2* ; Nikolaos Stathopoulos 3 ; Demetrios E. Tsesmelis 4 ; Effrosyni Kalantzi 5 , Georgios G. Kokkinakis 6 , Andreas Tsatsaris 7 1 Research Fellow, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Ag. Spyridonos Str., Egaleo, 12243, Athens 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, El. Venizelou St., 70, Kallithea, 17671 Athens 3 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, BEYOND Centre of EO Research & Satellite Remote Sensing, 15236 Athens 4 Department of Science & Data Analysis, NEUROPUBLIC S.A., Methonis 6, 18545 Piraeus, Greece&Laboratory of Technology and Policy of Energy and Environment, School of Science and Technology, 9Hellenic Open University, 26335, Patra, Greece 5 Research Fellow, Business Administration Department, University of West Attica, Campus 2, Peter Ralli and Thivon Str. 250, Egaleo, 12244, Athens, Greece 6 Ph.D Candidate, School of Production Engineering and Management, Applied Math and Computers Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, University Campus, 73100 Chania 7 Professor, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Ag. Spyridonos Str., Egaleo, 12243, Athens ABSTRACT Student performance and consequently the access to higher education have been a means of improving the social status of individuals, while it was believed that the issues related to the reproduction of caste and social inequalities in Greece could be addressed. The study of access to tertiary education in Greece is the subject of this research work. At the end of the last class of the high school, i.e., the upper secondary school, general examinations are carried out in our country which, lead to some University Department. This work is intended to highlight the geographical dimension of the performance of secondary school pupils in order to achieve a post in higher education. For the needs of the work a spatial database in GIS environment was created from the performance of 72,619 students (1202 high schools) of the 3rd class of high school of the 2012-2013 school year. Keywords: Sociology of education; geography of education; school failure; GIS; mapping. Citation: Kalogeropoulos, K., Apostolidis, V., Stathopoulos, N., Tsesmelis, D. E., Kalantzi, E., Kokkinakis, G. G., et al. (2021). Mapping student performance towards higher education. International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies, 3(6), 54-59. INTRODUCTION The branch of Sociology that deals with education is called Sociology of Education. Given that the educational system is considered a Nation-State’s pillar, engaging from a sociological point of view is considered essential. As a result, the educational structure, educational procedures or the educational reality and educational events are specialized aspects of the social structure, of social procedures and of the social reality, as well as of social events. The characteristics of Sociology of Education focus on two points: a) starting with the national educational system, the formulation of the national schools of thought is accomplished, mostly the American, the French and the English ones, and b) having research that emphasizes on inequality as a primary goal, it leads to the conclusion that sociology of education is not distinguished from sociology of educational inequality, which by extension could be considered to be sociology of social reproduction. The aspects of a “spatial turn” in sociology can be observed through terms such as this of “social space” by Durkheim [1], and especially as it’s referred to in neo-marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre’s writings [2], in Bourdieu’s ideas on habitus [3] and “social capital” [4], in Levy’s meaning of “spatial capital” [5], as well as the meaning of locales by Giddens [6]. In particular, when it comes to educational research, subjects that relate to the infiltration of neoliberal ideas, such as the parental choosing of school, have been frequently approached from a spatial point of view, especially in the United States [7, 8]. In general, the “spatial turn” towards humanitarian and social sciences has also paved numerous new roads