← Back to homeİSTEK Kaşgarlı Mahmut Okulları
Istanbul, Turkey · est. 1987 · Private
Illustration · Istanbul
İSTEK Kaşgarlı Mahmut Okulları have been working in Sultangazi since the 1987-1988 school year and are named after the medieval Turkic linguist Kaşgarlı Mahmut. At one address there are five schools here - kindergarten, primary, middle, Anatolian high school and science high school - on a site of 9,360 square metres. The campus names a conference hall for 320 people, a library, an indoor sports complex, a pool, music and drawing workshops, a recording studio, four science labs and computer rooms, a maker workshop, a large dining hall and outdoor sports grounds. The primary school has an IB PYP coordinator, and the older stages take part in the Model United Nations club, in Destination Imagination and in the First Lego League. There are more than twenty clubs: from programming and artificial intelligence to swimming, violin and cooking, and sports schools run in winter and in summer. The teaching staff are named one by one only for the kindergarten, and the school does not give its fees or its number of students.
Key facts
Languages
Turkish, English
About the fees The school does not publish its fees as text: the “Kayıt Ücretleri” page on the network's site gives, for each campus, only a link to a cloud folder with a document.
Admissions Children are taken into the kindergarten and grade 1 on a school readiness test and a get-to-know-you interview with the child; into grades 2, 3 and 4 - on an interview and an assessment of readiness; into grade 5 - on the İSTEK exam and an interview; into the middle grades - on the school's own assessment, a conversation with a psychologist and a foreign language exam; into the preparatory year and grade 9 of the Anatolian high school - on a conversation with a psychologist, the İSTEK exam and the result of the state LGS exam; into the science high school - on a conversation with a psychologist and the LGS result.
Stages and year groups Grades from kindergarten to the final year of high school. The campus runs five schools at one address: a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, an Anatolian high school and a science high school.
Address 50. Yıl Mah. Eski Edirne Asfaltı Cad. No:510-512, 34110 Sultangazi, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · 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). 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.
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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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: 9,360 square metres in Sultangazi; a conference hall for 320 people, a library, an indoor sports complex, a pool, music and drawing workshops, a recording studio, four science labs and computer rooms, a maker workshop, a large dining hall, outdoor sports grounds, event halls and play areas.
Clubs and activities (21): Literature · Drama · Nature and history · Model United Nations · Programming · Artificial intelligence · Technology and design · Mathematics and logic games · Basketball · Volleyball · Table tennis · Swimming · Guitar · Violin · Chess · Contemporary dance · First Lego League · Photoshop and 3D design · Cookery · Destination Imagination · Spanish
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
In winter and in summer the campus runs sports schools: swimming, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, violin, piano, guitar.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers12
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
Names are published only for the kindergarten - twelve teachers; the staff pages of the other stages open empty. The leadership of all five schools is named separately, nine people, including the IB PYP coordinator.
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 roomA medical room on campus; the health service has a paediatrician 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 all the sites is run by the network's own service, with staff licensed under law 5188; day and night posts, indoor and outdoor cameras recording around the clock, and every entry and exit logged electronically.
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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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 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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