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Istanbul, Turkey · est. 1986 · Private
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İSTEK Bilge Kağan Okulları was founded in Florya, in the Bakırköy district, in 1986, and runs at one address a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, an Anadolu high school and a science high school. The high school declares itself a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate program and is preparing for authorization. The campus names equipped classrooms with interactive boards, physics, chemistry, biology and science labs, computer labs, sports facilities, art workshops, canteens with buffets, a library with a media center and open playgrounds. Almost two hundred teachers are posted by name across all five levels. Clubs run in directions ranging from violin, flute and a sound studio to archery, pickleball and mind karting, and the middle and senior levels have their own sports teams - korfball, badminton, modern pentathlon, sailing, bocce. The campus takes children from the age of four into its winter and summer sports and art schools; it publishes neither tuition nor student numbers.
Key facts
Languages
Turkish, English
About the fees The school does not publish a price in words: the “Kayıt Ücretleri” page on the network's site gives, for each campus, only a link to a cloud folder with a document.
Admissions Into kindergarten and grade 1 children are taken on a school readiness test and a getting-to-know interview with the child; into grades 2, 3 and 4 - on an interview and a readiness assessment; into grade 5 - on the İSTEK exam and an interview; into the middle grades - on the school's own assessment, a meeting with a psychologist and a foreign language exam; into the preparatory year and grade 9 of the Anadolu high school - on a meeting with a psychologist, the İSTEK exam and the result of the state LGS exam; into the science high school - on a meeting with a psychologist and the LGS result.
Stages and year groups Grades from kindergarten to the final grade of high school. The campus runs five schools at one address: a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, an Anadolu high school and a science high school.
Address Şenlikköy Mah. Florya Cad. No:2, 34153 Florya, Bakırköy, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeİSTEK Vakfı 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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The schools of the Istanbul foundation İSTEK İstanbul Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı, established by Bedrettin Dalan in 1985; the first school of the foundation its pages name as the Semiha Şakır high school in Göztepe. The foundation exists separately from the schools and holds, besides them, Yeditepe University, opened in 1996: that is how it describes its own chain - from kindergarten to university and to work. A school, for the foundation, means a separately licensed institution of one stage, and at the high school level it divides them by type as well; its own count is 22 kindergartens, 22 primary schools, 22 middle schools, 20 high schools and 14 Fen high schools, that is, about a hundred institutions, and this is a count by stage on the same campuses rather than by address. The number of kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools is the same - 22 each - while there are two fewer high schools.
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
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 hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: Classrooms with interactive boards and projectors, science, physics, chemistry and biology labs, computer labs, sports facilities, art workshops, canteens and buffets, a library with a media center, open playgrounds.
Clubs and activities (24): Drama · Guitar · Flute · Violin and sound technology · Contemporary dance · Folk dance · Pencil drawing · Printmaking · Chess · Archery · Korfball and volleyball · Swimming · Logic games · Colourful dreams workshop · Mental arithmetic · Young scientists · Graphic design, web design and robotics · Social responsibility · Pickleball · Table tennis · Karate · Sound and rhythm workshop · Pop-rock orchestra · Polyphonic choir
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The winter sports schools run from September to June - swimming, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, for children from 4 to 14; the summer ones work from June to September and add chess, logic games, handicrafts, reading, drama and dance, for children from 6 to 13. The winter art schools, from October to June, take children from 4 to 15: chess, contemporary dance, ballet, world and folk dance, drama, music, visual art and painting.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers185
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The staff is posted by name in a table for each level, with the subject given: kindergarten - 24 people, primary school - 56, middle school - 41, Anadolu high school - 53, science high school - 11.
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 roomAn infirmary on campus; the health service has a pediatrician and school nurses.
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Security on every site is run by the network's own service with staff licensed under law 5188; day and night posts, indoor and outdoor cameras recording round the clock, and every entry and exit logged electronically.
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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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median64 "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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