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Istanbul, Turkey · est. 1987 · Private
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İSTEK Uluğbey Okulları has worked in Kartal since 1987 and runs a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, an Anatolian high school and a science high school at one address. The campus names laboratories, a pool, sports grounds, art spaces, equipped classrooms, a conference hall, a library and an assembly hall. The staff is published by name for all five stages - about a hundred and ninety teachers, among them seven counseling psychologists; German and Spanish are taught as second languages. The school infirmary is run by a pediatric surgeon and school nurses, and check-ups are supplemented by doctors from the dental and eye clinics of the network’s university. Middle and high school students have two lessons a week set aside for club work, and the campus buildings are open for activities after lessons, on weekends and during the holidays. There is no list of clubs and no tuition as text on the site.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Turkish, English
Languages taught
German, Spanish
About the fees The school does not publish its price as text: the “Kayıt Ücretleri” page on the network’s site gives, for each campus, only a link to a cloud folder holding a document.
Admissions Children are taken into kindergarten and grade one on a school readiness test and an introductory interview with the child; into grades 2, 3 and 4 on an interview and a readiness assessment; into grade five 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 nine of the Anatolian high school on a conversation with a psychologist, the İSTEK exam and the result of the national LGS exam; into the science high school on a conversation with a psychologist and the LGS result.
Stages and year groups Grades from the preparatory group to the final grade 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 Atalar Mah. Akgün Sk. No:23, 34862 Kartal, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeCollege Board · 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Authorisation here runs a year at a time: the register lists the school for the 2025-2026 school year.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →İSTEK Vakfı Okullarıschool network
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: Laboratories, a pool, sports grounds, art spaces, equipped classrooms, a conference hall, a library and an assembly hall.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The campus describes its winter and summer school as a chance to study in its buildings after lessons, on weekends and on the days when the school is closed.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers190
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The staff is published by name in a table for each stage with the subject given: kindergarten - 24 people, primary school - 47, middle school - 40, Anatolian high school - 43, science high school - 36.
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, equipped for first aid; the health service employs a pediatric surgeon and school nurses, and in urgent cases a child is taken to the nearest hospital accompanied by a nurse. Check-ups are also carried out by doctors from the dental and eye clinics of the network’s university.
✓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 grounds is kept by the network’s own service, with personnel licensed under Law 5188; day and night posts, indoor and outdoor cameras recording around the clock, and every entry and exit logged electronically.
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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 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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