A private day school in the Sahinbey district of Gaziantep, founded in 1998 by the Gaziantep Egitim ve Hizmet Vakfi foundation. The foundation itself was set up in 1980 on the initiative of the late Hasan Kalyoncu and a group of benefactors, and it also stands behind Hasan Kalyoncu University, with which the school works: the high school prepares pupils not only for the national entrance examination but for going on to that university. The line of levels is complete: a kindergarten carrying Hasan Kalyoncu's name, a primary school, a middle school and two high schools, Anatolian and science. The preschool stage is declared bilingual. The school describes its teaching through project work and continuous improvement, and names creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and critical thinking among the skills it builds.
Key facts
Programmes
National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
About the fees There is no tuition on the site: the school publishes no table, no range and no payments page, and the enrolment page leads to booking an appointment. So there is no figure here, either with or without VAT.
Admissions The school keeps its enrolment procedure on a page of its own and runs a booking system alongside it: a parent takes a slot through the school's own service and comes in for an interview. The school's pages name no entrance tests, no application deadlines and no document requirements.
Stages and year groups There are four levels: a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school and a high school, with the high school split into an Anatolian and a science stream. The school gives no number for its kindergarten entry age. It sets out its club work for the high school as a list of thirteen names.
Address Yeditepe Mahallesi, Yeşilvadi Bulvarı No: 386, Şahinbey, Gaziantep
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · listed in the registry with no status grantedThe school holds one registry record: it stands in the directory of the Council of International Schools, and the substatus published there is Prospect, meaning the school has joined the membership and is working towards accreditation but does not hold accreditation yet. On its own site the school writes nothing about CIS: for outside confirmation its quality section names only the ISO 9001 quality management certificate and the Turkish TSE standard, and the quality work is run by its own quality and strategic development unit. The school names no international programmes on its pages at all, neither Cambridge nor IB.
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CISCouncil of International Schools
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
What the badge means for this school. The school appears in the organisation's directory, but the organisation has granted it no status at all. At the Council of International Schools such an entry is called a Prospect and means a potential client in their system: the school may have made an enquiry, may have been added from outside, or may not know about the entry at all - on the websites of three such schools out of five the organisation is not mentioned once. An entry like this brings a school into the ranking but scores the minimum on that criterion, exactly as membership and candidacy do. It is neither an accreditation nor candidacy, and it says nothing about the quality of the school. The entry stands in the organisation's open directory, and no status stands behind it there.
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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.
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: Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: The school describes its Yesilvadi campus as a list of spaces: a sports hall, a dining hall, a robotics and coding workshop, a science laboratory, a music room and a cinema of its own. Swimming it names as a separate strand of the preschool stage.
Clubs and activities: Yazılım · Robotik · Zeka Oyunları · Okçuluk · Etik Değerler · Keman · Piyano · Gitar · Drama · Satranç · Edebiyat · Karate · Kil ve Seramik
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%)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%)65 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 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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Gaziantep, Turkey · est. 1998 · Private