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Istanbul, Turkey · est. 2013 · Private
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The campus in Avcılar joined the Feyziye Foundation in the 2013-2014 school year, the high school opened in 2016, the science high school in 2017, and ownership of the campus passed to the foundation in 2017. The whole building is three storeys and 21 thousand square metres of indoor space, and a child does not step outside to reach the sports hall, the pool, the conference halls, the workshops, the laboratories, the library or the canteen; outdoors there are a grove, play gardens by age group and open-air grounds. Besides English there are separate German, French and Spanish rooms here, an English story room, science laboratories, music rooms and a ceramics workshop. The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme has run since 2018-2019 for children from three to twelve, and the IB Diploma has been in the high school since 2022-2023. Graduates go on to Boğaziçi Technical, İstanbul, Sabancı, Koç, Özyeğin, Yeditepe, Marmara, Ege and other universities - the school puts up a breakdown of placements by year. Student numbers, the teaching staff and examination results the school does not give.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 999–19 578 a year
386 140–945 140 TRY
Languages of instruction
Turkish, English
Languages taught
German, French, Spanish
About the fees Fees are announced for the campus on a separate sheet for the 2026-2027 school year, by stage and grade, and inside the high school by year of entry. Payment by bank transfer costs less than by card or in six, eight or ten instalments, and early registration by 4 March costs less than registration by 1 April. VAT of 10 percent is not included in the amounts, meals are counted separately, and the IB Diploma is paid for as a supplement.
Admissions Applications for the kindergarten, the primary and the middle school the school takes in order of arrival, and it keeps reserve lists. For the first grade, five-year-olds from the school's own kindergarten have priority; those who come through on the quota have individual conversations with the counselling psychologists, and for intermediate grades there is an entrance examination plus the same conversation. Into the high school preparatory year, graduates of this campus's middle school are taken on their fifth-to-eighth-grade average, with a threshold the school sets each year, and those coming from other schools on their central examination scores.
Stages and year groups Grades up to grade 12. Kindergarten from the age of three, primary from the first to the fourth grade, middle from the fifth to the eighth, a high school with a preparatory year and a separate science high school. The high school opened in 2016, the science high school in 2017.
Address Tahtakale Mah. Gaffar Okkan Cad. No:5 / 7 Blok No:1, 34325 Avcılar, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeFMV Işık Okulları · school is part of the networkschool 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: 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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Schools of the Feyziye Mektepleri Vakfı foundation, FMV on its own pages; the invoices and the signatures on the site stand in the name of Feyziye Mektepleri Vakfı İktisadi İşletmesi, the commercial enterprise of the foundation. The network counts its beginning from the Feyz-i Sıbyan school, opened on 14 December 1885 in Thessaloniki by Mümeyiz Tevfik Efendi; the schools received the name IŞIK on 16 December 1934, on the forty-ninth anniversary. Besides the schools the foundation holds the FMV Işık university and a sports club. Five campuses, all in Istanbul: Nişantaşı, Ayazağa, Erenköy, Ispartakule and Florya, - and fifteen school units on them, because on each campus the kindergarten, the primary-and-middle school and the high school stand as separate institutions, while in Ayazağa, Erenköy and Ispartakule the high school and the Fen Lisesi are split apart. Of programmes the network names the International Baccalaureate - the PYP in the junior schools and the diploma in the high schools - and membership of the Global Schools Program.
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
Where leavers go: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi · İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa · Sabancı Üniversitesi · Koç Üniversitesi · Türk-Alman Üniversitesi · Özyeğin Üniversitesi · Yeditepe Üniversitesi · Medipol Üniversitesi · İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi · Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi · Biruni Üniversitesi · MEF Üniversitesi and others, 19 universities in the school's list in all
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓LaboratoriesComputer laboratories, science laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓LibraryA school library; the high school has its own - FMV Ispartakule Işık Lisesi - Fen Lisesi Kütüphanesi - with electronic resources
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: A three-storey building with 21,000 square metres of indoor space. The sports hall, the pool, the conference halls, the workshops, the laboratories, the library and the canteen are all inside the building, with no going outdoors. Outside there are playgrounds and play gardens by age group, a grove, and open-air and indoor sports grounds. There is an English story room and separate German, French and Spanish rooms. There is a virtual tour of the campus.
Clubs and activities: Destination Imagination · Drama and performing arts · Debating · English-Speaking Union · Gastronomy · Foreign language clubs · Travel · Politics and diplomacy · Model United Nations · Fitness · Innovation and entrepreneurship · English literature olympiad · Basketball · Esports · Mind Masters · 3D technology and design · Storytelling · Robotics and artificial intelligence · Kamishibai · Adventure and discovery · Young critics · Creative writing · Music · Drawing · Chess · Taekwondo · Table tennis · Swimming · Philosophy · Geography · Tennis · Orienteering · Flag football · Folk dance · Archiving
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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
✓CounsellorIts own “Rehberlik ve Psikolojik Danışmanlık” service at every stage, with hours for parents
✓Child protection policyEach school on the campus publishes a “ÇOCUK KORUMA POLİTİKASI” under “Politikalarımız” A separate page, “Veli, Vasi ve Öğrenci Şikayet Prosedürleri” - the complaints procedure for parents, guardians and students
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Security, cameras and a medical room the school does not describe
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 data70 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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 8 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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