A private school on a campus in Bitez near Bodrum, running a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, an Anatolian high school and a science high school. The school describes the campus as an environmentally conscious one: some five dönüm of mandarin, lemon and olive trees, its own water treatment and separate collection of paper, plastic, glass and carton. The facilities are listed in detail: a semi-Olympic indoor swimming pool, an indoor sports hall, gymnastics and dance halls, two outdoor and one indoor tennis court, an artificial turf pitch, physics, chemistry and biology laboratories, a robotics and coding laboratory, drawing and ceramics studios, kitchens for cookery lessons, and rooms for the first and second foreign language. On its primary school page the school speaks of classes of 14. The school belongs to Marmara Eğitim Kurumları, which besides Bodrum has campuses in Maltepe and Kartepe.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $11 310–15 267 a year
546 000–737 000 TRY
Programmes
IB · PYP, DP · National programme
About the fees Fees for the 2026-2027 school year are published stage by stage in a separate price list for the Bodrum campus. The figures taken here are tuition without meals, announced with 10 per cent VAT included: kindergarten 637,000 lira, primary school 546,000, middle school 637,000, the high school and the science high school 637,000 each. The IB section adds 100,000 lira to the stage, which is the top of the range. Meals are counted separately and announced before VAT: 150,000 lira a year plus 10 per cent VAT. Payment is two instalments at registration and then equal instalments until the end of May. The school names discounts of 10 per cent for a second child, 5 per cent for children of alumni, 10 per cent for employees of corporate partners and 15 or 5 per cent for early registration, and says the discounts add up.
Admissions Entry to the high school goes by the result of the national high school transition examination: each year the school board announces a percentile band or a floor score and admits against it. Graduates of the school's own middle school may enter without the examination, with senior management approval, within a share set by the same board and taking into account the middle school's report. Transfers follow ministry rules and available quota places.
Stages and year groups Five separate institutions share the campus: the Bitez kindergarten, the primary school, the middle school, the Anatolian high school and the science high school. The primary stage follows the IB PYP, and the IB Diploma runs as a separate section in the senior stage. The school speaks of classes of 14.
Address Bitez Mahallesi, Zeytinli Caddesi No: 60/A, 48470 Bodrum, Muğla
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeMarmara Eğitim Kurumları · school is part of the networkThe school holds IB registry record 050583 for the Primary Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. The Bodrum primary school page states its status directly, that it has gained IB World School status by authorization. The general Marmara page about the IB Diploma, however, speaks only of the Istanbul college, where the programme has run since 2008, while the Bodrum price list carries the IB section as a separate line with a surcharge.
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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: PYP (ages 3-12), DP (ages 16-19). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. 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.
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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.
Marmara Eğitim Kurumlarıschool network
A private group begun in 1985 with the Çağdaşım kindergarten in Maltepe in Istanbul; the site names no holding and no foundation above the schools - there is the name of the group, a message from the founder and a message from the chief executive. Three campuses: the Istanbul one in Maltepe, which moved into its present building in 2002-2003; Bodrum, the first campus outside Istanbul, opened in 1997; and Kocaeli-Kartepe, the third, opened in 2017. On each campus the kindergarten, the primary and middle schools and the high schools stand as separate institutions, so there are more units than addresses. The group dates its CIS accreditation and its right to award the International Baccalaureate diploma to 2008; of programmes it names Erasmus+, the European Youth Parliament, the International Youth Award and the Fulbright and Rotary exchanges.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: The campus in Bitez holds some five dönüm of mandarin, lemon and olive trees, its own water treatment system and separate collection of paper, plastic, glass and carton.
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%)95 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 data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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.
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