← Back to the rankingLycée Français Pierre Loti d'Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey · Private
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The Lycée Français Pierre Loti is a private school in Istanbul that works to the curricula of the French Ministry of National Education. The school says it teaches more than 1188 students of many nationalities from maternelle to terminale, and describes itself as an international establishment and a cultural crossroads. It is one institution on two sites: Beyoğlu in the city centre for the youngest classes, and Tarabya above the Bosphorus for the collège and the lycée; the school presents the two sites as complementary. It also sets out a language strand of its own, with a European section and courses in European languages and cultures in 4e and 3e, and calls the teaching of foreign languages one of the foundations of the school.
Key facts
Programmes
French programme
About the fees The school publishes no amounts. The fees section points to a separate document on tuition rights for the school year and to the financial regulations, and no figures appear in the section itself. Students with French citizenship are told to apply for a state scholarship through the French consulate rather than through the school.
Admissions New families apply in a pre-registration campaign for the 2026/2027 school year, open from 20 February to 1 May; it is meant for families with no child yet in the school. The application is made by the legal representatives of the student on the EDUKA parent portal, and the school states plainly that a pre-registration is not an admission. Families already known to the school follow a separate route.
Stages and year groups The full French ladder runs from maternelle to terminale and is split between two sites: the youngest classes and CP to CM1 in Beyoğlu, CM2 up to terminale in Tarabya. The school presents itself as a single establishment on two sites, with shared programmes and one administration.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
AEFE · accreditationThe school is homologated by the French Ministry of National Education and belongs to the AEFE network of French schools abroad. It describes itself as one of the 580 establishments of that network and takes students up to the French baccalaureate, which is recognised through that same network. The registry entry gives the status conventionné: the homologation is in place and part of the teaching staff is seconded by the agency itself.
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
AEFEAgency for French Education Abroad
It runs the network of French schools worldwide, while the accreditation itself, the homologation, is granted by the French education ministry and inspected by French state inspectors. A leaver from a homologated school moves into a school in France without an entrance examination. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
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 state programme of France. A school is homologated by the French ministry of education, and a leaver may move into a school in France without entrance tests. Homologation is granted stage by stage, so it sometimes covers only part of the year groups.
What this means for this school. Which year groups of this school are covered by homologation - only the primary ones, or all the way to the final year - is not stated here. The difference matters: it decides whether the school takes a child through to the French baccalaureate or hands them on to another school halfway.
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 hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: Two sites: the Beyoğlu building with bright classrooms, safe play areas and dedicated teaching spaces, and the Tarabya building set in greenery above the Bosphorus, with sports grounds, music and art rooms and separate rooms for languages, sciences and technology.
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
There is no data for this section yet.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
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 at the median60 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 data70 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 5 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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