İstanbul Erkek Lisesi was founded in 1884 as Numune-i Terakki, became a state school in 1896, took its present name in 1910, and in 1913, as Istanbul Sultanisi, was reshaped on the French model. The German line began in 1915 with the arrival of eight German teachers and continues today as a separate German department. The department's subject faculties are biology, chemistry, German, English, mathematics and physics, and the sciences are taught in German as the language of the subject. The school belongs to MINT-EC, the network of German schools with a strong science profile, runs the Jugend forscht research competition, publishes a school newspaper and cooperates with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Its pupil science committee travels to İğneada to observe the night sky.
Key facts
Programmes
German programme · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish, German
Stages and year groups A state Anatolian high school with a German department. Pupils sit the German Language Diploma at level two in grade 10, with a second attempt available in grade 11. The department prints no figures for year groups or class sizes.
Address Türk Ocağı Caddesi No: 4, 34110 Cağaloğlu, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ZfA · accreditationThe school is listed in the register of German schools abroad. Its German department went through the federal and state inspection and was awarded the quality seal of an excellent German school abroad once again; the final report and the presentation are published openly in German and Turkish. The German line here is a language one: pupils in grade 10 receive the German Language Diploma at level two, and the school calls the award ceremony a milestone. German subjects are taught in part by teachers sent from Germany under the foreign school service and the federal programme.
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
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.
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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.
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
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 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%)85 Teaching staff (10%)no datathe criterion switches on once there is data about the teachers 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 6 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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