A campus in Yeşilova near Bornova, opened in 1998 by the Çimentaş Education and Health Foundation, which first gathered an advisory committee of forty people from different professions to work through the buildings, the teaching approach and the staffing. Its units run from an early learning centre through primary and middle school to high school. The national curriculum of the Ministry of Education serves as the frame, and on top of it the school runs three IB programmes. Teaching is bilingual, with a Turkish and an English-speaking teacher working together in the classroom. The boarding house for high school students has run since 2012 and holds 72 places - 36 for boys and 36 for girls.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $19 209–33 739 a year
927 300–1.6 million TRY
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish, English
About the fees Fees are set by the board of the CESVAK foundation and announced on the site by the end of May, as the Turkish regulation on private schools requires. The table gives both the VAT-free amounts and the totals with the 10 per cent tax; the range here uses the totals with VAT. The cheapest stages are Grades 4, 8 and 12 as day students at 927,300 lira a year; the dearest is the preparatory year and Grades 9 to 11 of high school with boarding at 1,628,750 lira. Lunch and two snacks a day are included at every stage. High school adds a boarding fee of 313,700 lira as a separate line, and Grades 4, 8 and 12 add fees for academic support courses and for books and stationery.
Admissions The admissions office sends the calendar and the procedure by letter both to current parents and to future ones who have completed pre-registration for the coming year. The application form sits on the site next to a page of frequently asked questions.
Stages and year groups Grades ELC, 1-12. The stages are an early learning centre, primary school from Grade 1 to Grade 4, middle school from Grade 5 to Grade 8, and high school from the preparatory year to Grade 12. Teaching began in September 1998 with the early learning centre and the first two primary grades. Swimming lessons run for every child from the age of three.
Address 6240/5 Sokak No:3, Karacaoğlan Mahallesi, 35070 Yeşilova, İzmir
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeCIS · accreditationThe school is listed in the IB register under number 049989 with three programmes - PYP, MYP and the Diploma Programme - and was the first in the Aegean region with PYP and MYP. In the register of the Council of International Schools it stands as accredited, with boarding and homestay. The school also calls itself an authorised Cambridge International Examinations school, but it carries no Cambridge entry in the registers we hold.
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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16), 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. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. 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 →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 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.
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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 poolA half-Olympic indoor swimming pool; every child from the age of three has regular swimming lessons.
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓LaboratoriesOne laboratory shared by primary and middle school for mathematics and science, three high school laboratories for chemistry, physics and biology, and a separate welding room for experiments.
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
✓BoardingA boarding house of 72 places, 36 for boys and 36 for girls, set over two buildings.
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus:
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
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%)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 data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 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 data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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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Izmir, Turkey · est. 1998 · Private