The private school of the German embassy in Ankara, named after Ernst Reuter. It stands in the centre of the city, in Kavaklıdere, and describes itself as a small school of a family kind, with close contact between teacher and pupil. A pupil who reaches the tenth grade can earn an international university entrance qualification here through the bilingual IB diploma. Life beyond lessons is built around the library, well equipped subject rooms and learning outside the classroom: class trips, music and art activities and afternoon programmes. The school has a teacher of trust and a social pedagogue on the staff.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · German programme
Languages of instruction
German, English
About the fees Fees are set out in a separate schedule of charges for each academic year, published as files, with earlier years kept alongside. The canteen is charged separately from tuition.
Admissions Admission is limited by the space available and the decision rests with the head of school. Children with Turkish citizenship, including dual nationals, cannot currently be admitted either to the kindergarten or to the school. A pupil without sufficient German is taken only into the primary school and only on probation: after half a year the head decides, on the proposal of the class conference, whether the pupil can be expected to reach a level of German within a year that allows successful work, and parents may have to pay for additional language lessons.
Stages and year groups Levels: kindergarten, primary school, lower secondary up to grade 10 and the two-year GIB course in grades 11 and 12. There is after-school care for the younger children.
Address Tunus Caddesi No: 56, 06680 Kavaklıdere, Ankara
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeZfA · accreditationWDA · part of the allianceThe school is listed in the IB registry with the Diploma Programme and in the register of the German federal office ZfA as a German school abroad, a Deutsche Auslandsschule. It runs the diploma bilingually, under the name GIB, in grades 11 and 12: a two-year course with six subjects, three at higher and three at standard level. The higher level subjects are German, history and biology, taught in German; English and mathematics at standard level are taught in English. As a sixth subject a pupil chooses either Spanish from scratch or physics in English. The school is also listed among the members of the Weltverband Deutscher Auslandsschulen (WDA), the association of the founding bodies of German schools abroad; it does not inspect schools, and the membership carries no accreditation threshold.
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 →ZfACentral Agency for German Schools Abroad
A German federal agency. It recognises a school as a German school abroad, funds it and grants the right to award the German leaving certificate. Quality is examined by a state inspection about once every six years, and schools that pass receive the mark of an excellent German school abroad.
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 →WDAWorld Association of German Schools Abroad
An association of the owners of German schools abroad: in essence an industry lobby and a service organisation. It runs no inspections. The condition of admission is a recognised German certificate, but that recognition is granted by the German state, not by WDA.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to an association of school owners. There is no inspection of its own behind it: the badge rests on a decision of the German state and adds nothing to it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →German programme
The German school programme. Recognised German schools abroad award the Deutsches Internationales Abitur, the German leaving certificate used for entry to universities in Germany. Behind the recognition stands the federal agency ZfA.
What this means for this school. ZfA recognition comes at levels: a school that takes pupils through to the German leaving certificate is one thing, a school with the DSD language diploma, where German is taught as a subject, is another. Which level this school holds is not stated here.
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
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
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Academics and programmes (16%)84 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%)no datathe criterion switches on once there is data about the teachers Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored at the median70 Value for money (6%) scored at the median80 "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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