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Istanbul, Turkey · Private
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The school works in Sultangazi and was opened by the Tzu Chi Foundation, which supports it. It takes in above all the children of Syrian refugees and says plainly that it sees its task as bringing them into Turkish life: it has about four and a half thousand students and seventy-six teachers, and counts more than two and a half thousand graduates. Besides the school classes it runs courses in Quranic studies and in Arabic, Turkish, English and Chinese, and prepares students for the Turkish university entrance exam YÖS. In summer the school runs a club for the kindergarten year and the primary grades - with abacus arithmetic, drawing, crafts, team games and workshops in mathematics, science and English. The school does not name its fees: in its frequently asked questions the question of whether the classes are paid or free is left without an answer. There are no admission conditions, no teachers' names, no list of universities and no exam results anywhere on its pages.
Key facts
About the fees The school does not publish its fees. In the frequently asked questions the question “are the classes paid or free” is there, but the answer under it is empty.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-12. The school mentions preparatory classes (التحضيري) and the primary stage (المرحلة الابتدائية). The Ministry of National Education has issued three licences at its address, all as an international school: primary, middle and high school.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationCertificate valid through July 2030 · Cognia
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
CogniaCognia, formerly AdvancED
The widest-reaching American accreditation: some forty thousand schools in over a hundred countries. It accredits both individual schools and whole school systems. It also sells a paid membership with no inspection behind it, and that membership is often passed off as accreditation.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
Its own summer club at the school, for the kindergarten year and the primary grades. The school lists in it team games, crafts and art, contests in reading, drawing and sport, workshops in science, mathematics and English, and abacus arithmetic.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers76
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school shows its number of teachers with a counter on the home page: “مدرس” - 76. It gives no names, no qualifications and no ratio to students; the site has a team section and it stands empty.
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%)60 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 data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median64 "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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