A state Anatolian high school in the Cevizli neighbourhood of the Kartal district of Istanbul. By the school's own figures it has 601 students, 51 teachers and 26 classrooms, and it teaches in a single shift. The first foreign language is English and the second is German. The international side has a menu section of its own: AP courses and the DSD German language diploma, exchange programmes with Germany and Canada, and trips to Udens College in the Netherlands, a German Gesamtschule and Venray College. For research the school names TUBITAK projects, and for sport basketball, volleyball and table tennis tournaments. It runs fourteen student clubs, among them MUN, debating, chess and a cyber security and robotics club.
Key facts
Programmes
AP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German
About the fees Tuition is free: this is a state high school of the Turkish Ministry of National Education. The school mentions school transport but does not publish what it costs.
Admissions Admission goes by the state LGS examination, in two language streams. The school publishes its entry floors: 439.25 for the German stream and 437.23 for the English one. The number of places is not fixed on the site: the school writes that it changes every month and points families to the state e-Okul system.
Stages and year groups Grades 9-12, 26 classes. A state Anatolian high school with 26 classrooms, teaching in a single shift, with a school day from 08:10 to 15:10. The first foreign language is English and the second German, and intake runs in two language streams: the school publishes separate entry floors for the German and the English stream. It does not fix the number of places on the site and sends families to the state e-Okul system instead, because the figure changes every month.
Address Cevizli Mah. Karabük Cad. No 10, Kartal / İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeThe College Board entry in the AP course register carries number 696376. The school confirms it in its own words: its menu has a section called Uluslararasi Programlarimiz, our international programmes, and inside it an item reading AP Advanced Placement Programi. Beside it stands DSD Deutsches Sprachdiplom Almanca Dil Diplomasi, the German language diploma of the German state PASCH programme, in whose register the school also appears. That programme carries no threshold of its own, so it is not shown as a badge. The school does not publish any examination centre numbers.
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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.
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Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
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 from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus:
Clubs and activities: Bilim, Fen ve Teknoloji Kulübü · Bilişim, Siber Güvenlik ve Robotik Kodlama Kulübü · Çevre Koruma Kulübü · Değerler Kulübü · Erasmus, e-Twinning ve Yurtdışı Projeler Kulübü · Gezi, Tanıtma ve Turizm Kulübü · Kütüphanecilik Kulübü · Kültür ve Edebiyat Kulübü · Meslek Tanıtma Kulübü · Münazara Kulübü · Satranç Kulübü · Sivil Savunma Kulübü · Spor Kulübü · MUN Kulübü
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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
✓Counsellor
✓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%)63 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 data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 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 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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