← Back to the rankingBalıkesir Açı Koleji
Balıkesir, Turkey · est. 2015 · Private
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A private college in Balıkesir with kindergarten, primary school, middle school, an Anatolian high school and a science high school. The school belongs to Açı Eğitim Kurumları, founded in 1993 in Ankara; in Balıkesir the story began in 2006 with exam preparation courses, and the college itself opened in 2015. At high school level students follow the IB Diploma Programme. Foreign languages are taught against the Common European Framework levels: English, German and French. The school runs its own robotics line, AÇI ROBOTICS, takes part in Eco-Schools and keeps a counselling service for study in Turkey and abroad. The buildings share one campus, the high school with its own garden and a separate building for primary and middle school, with a library and a virtual tour of the primary school.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German, French
About the fees The school does not publish tuition on its site: there are no fee or contribution sections at all.
Admissions Entry to the IB Diploma Programme is described on separate pages: what the Diploma is, what it offers, which policies the school has adopted and which conditions have to be met to earn it. The site does not describe a general admissions route by grade; applications go through the school portal.
Stages and year groups The stages run consecutively: kindergarten, primary school, middle school, an Anatolian high school and a science high school. The IB Diploma Programme runs at high school level; the lower stages follow the national programme with strengthened foreign languages against the Common European Framework.
Address Çayırhisar Mahallesi, Yeni İzmir Yolu Caddesi No: 11 - 3A/3B, Altıeylül, Balıkesir
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school holds IB registry record 061369 for the Diploma Programme and writes of itself that it is an authorized International Baccalaureate school. The Diploma runs at high school level; the school names no PYP or MYP stage.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Campus: Two buildings on one campus, the high school with its own garden and a building for primary and middle school; the school publishes a virtual tour of the primary school.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median71 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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