A state Anatolian high school in the Macka quarter of the Sisli district of Istanbul, next door to the Macka campus of Istanbul Technical University. By the school's own figures it has 690 students, 44 teachers and 26 classrooms, and it teaches in a single shift. The first foreign language is English and the second German. The school writes that it places about ninety per cent of its leavers in universities each year and shows the figures year by year. Its research side is wide: TUBITAK 4004, 4005, 4006, 2204-A and 2204-C projects, Teknofest contests, science olympiads in Istanbul, the ministry robot competition, the inter-school mind games championship, Erasmus+ KA1 projects and projects with the Istanbul Development Agency. For sport it names futsal, basketball, volleyball, table tennis and chess tournaments.
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 names transport by fifteen buses but does not publish what it costs.
Admissions Admission goes by the state LGS examination. The school gives its number of places year by year: 180, 180 and 280 across three consecutive years. It does not report an entry band in points: where scores would stand it prints percentages instead.
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 08:00 to 15:05. The first foreign language is English and the second German. The school gives its number of places year by year: 180 in two consecutive years and 280 in a third.
Address Maçka Cad. No 8, Şişli / İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeThe College Board entry in the AP course register carries number 696655 and belongs to this high school. The school says nothing at all about AP courses on its own pages, so that entry rests on the register alone. It shows its international side through European Union projects instead, naming staff and student participation in Erasmus+ KA1 mobility projects.
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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: Art studio
Campus:
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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%)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 data55 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 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 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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