← Back to the rankingHuda Turkish International Schools (Hüda Okulları)
Istanbul, Turkey · Private
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A private school in the Başakşehir district of İstanbul, on a single campus. The school says of itself that it has nine years of operation and that American, British and Turkish pathways are brought together on one campus; it puts the student to teacher ratio at nine to one. Its head is named as Rami Habib. Besides its main domain the school keeps a second one, where admission is split into sections: American, British, Turkish and Arabic. The school site itself is a single page with a language switch: it carries no enrolment figure, no founding year and no fees, and about the campus it says only that it stands in a fast-growing district within easy reach of the rest of the city.
Key facts
Programmes
Pearson Edexcel · American programme · National programme
Languages of instruction
English, Turkish
About the fees The school publishes no fees at all: there is no price list and no payment page, and for terms and current offers the admissions page sends families straight to the admissions team by phone or messenger.
Admissions Enrolment runs through the admissions team: the school writes that registration for the new school year is open, advises families to register early, and invites them to reach the team by phone, messenger or email, including to arrange a campus visit. The page names no entrance tests, no deadlines and no list of documents.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years - 12. The school names five consecutive levels: Early Years for children aged three to five and a half, primary school from six to eleven, middle school from eleven to fourteen, and three senior pathways for ages fourteen to eighteen - the American diploma, the Turkish track preparing for the national YKS examination, and the British Edexcel-based track.
Address Kayabaşı, Ulubatlı Hasan Cd. Blok No: 9/1B, 34494 Başakşehir / İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationThe school is listed in the Cognia registry as a school, that is, accredited as an institution rather than for a single programme; the governing body named in the record is Huda Kurumlari Ve Egitim Hizmetleri Ticaret Ltd. Sirketi. The school says nothing about that accreditation on its own pages: it names three academic pathways instead - an American one leading to an American-style diploma, a Turkish one preparing for the national YKS examination, and a British one which it describes as Edexcel-based. It gives neither a record number nor an examination centre number.
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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 →Pearson Edexcel
A British exam board, the second after Cambridge. It issues its own versions of IGCSE and A-Level: the programme is the same in substance, what differs is who sets and marks the exams.
What this means for this school. The exams are set and marked by Pearson, and the school acts as an exam centre. Universities accept IGCSE and A-Level from Pearson on the same footing as the Cambridge ones. One caveat about checking: the Pearson centre search shows only those centres that agreed to be shown, so the absence of a school from it proves nothing.
American programme
The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
National programme
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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
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%)74 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 data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median65 "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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