A private school of the NÛN Foundation for Education and Culture, established in 2014. The foundation aims to empower young people with a strong moral and conscientious compass, intellectual curiosity and aesthetic appreciation. NÛN Primary School started in 2014, and the Middle School and High School in 2016, all on one campus in Beykoz. The school frames itself around six values - love, respect, decency, compassion, responsibility and justice - and around the student's connection with nature. It names Turkish as its language of instruction, delivering the national curriculum of the Ministry of National Education within the PYP, MYP and DP framework, and names no second language of instruction on its pages.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
About the fees The school prints no tuition range. It speaks about money only through scholarships: the foundation states that it cares about the presence of students from different socioeconomic groups and that its scholarship policy rests on providing equal rights to students. Scholarship rates are not fixed - they depend on the family's income, the student's performance and the scholarship quotas. To apply, middle and high school students must pass an academic examination while primary school students complete a set of workshops; the school does not consider that examination a scholarship examination, but the result determines the scholarship rate.
Admissions The evaluation process varies by grade level but essentially consists of academic, cognitive and social-emotional assessment of the candidate, a guidance interview and a family interview. Academic examinations are held on the dates announced on the school's website, and the candidate is invited to a guidance interview afterwards. Candidates for kindergarten and grade 1 sit no academic examination and go through the interview process with guidance unit experts only. The experts assess cognitive level, motor skills, attention, the ability to work in groups, social and communication skills and the ability to follow instructions. While the candidate is being assessed, an informative school promotion programme is organised for the parents. A separate admission process is published for international students at each level.
Stages and year groups One school in three licensed institutions on a single campus in Beykoz: NÛN Primary School, NÛN Middle School and NÛN High School. The primary school started in 2014, the middle school and high school in 2016. Admission runs into kindergarten as well as grade 1.
Address Elmalı Mahallesi, Beykoz Elmalı Yolu Sokak No:5/1, Beykoz / İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · accreditationIB · PYP, MYP, DP · authorised programmeThe school names all three IB programmes itself: its curriculum is aligned with the Primary Years Programme, the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme, and the national curriculum is delivered within that framework. Its Council of International Schools accreditation is reflected in a dedicated page on the CIS code of ethics among the school's guiding statements; the CIS registry records the school as Accredited. Neither a Cambridge centre number nor an IB code is published.
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
CISCouncil of International Schools
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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), MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19). 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. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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 hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
✓Boarding
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The Beykoz campus is designed so that learning extends beyond the classroom: the school takes students on nature walks in the neighbouring forest, treats nature as part of the learning environment and runs a Nature School strand. Classrooms, observatories, a conference hall and a mosque and prayer rooms are each set out as separate sections.
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
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%)95 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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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