← Back to the rankingOasis International School of Ankara
Ankara, Turkey · est. 2004 · Private
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An international school in the Incek neighbourhood on the southwestern edge of Ankara, founded in 2004. The curriculum is American-based and all classes are taught in English. The school describes itself as having around 400 students from 70 countries; its About page says over 350 students from more than 70 countries, and over the years children from more than a hundred countries have studied here. It runs a full programme from pre-kindergarten at age four to grade 12. The school year is divided into two semesters of two quarters each, and school hours run from 8:30am to 3:00pm, Monday through Friday. The majority of the teachers come from the United States. The school belongs to the American group OASIS International Schools.
Key facts
Tuition
$20 000–26 000 a year
Programmes
AP · American programme
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees Tuition is annual, for the 2026-2027 school year, in US dollars and set by stage. Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, ages four and five, cost 20,000; grades 1 to 4 cost 24,000; grades 5 to 12 cost 26,000. The school gives both figures, without tax and with Turkish VAT (KDV), which makes 22,000, 26,400 and 28,600 respectively. The range here uses the figures without tax. On top of tuition there is an annual non-refundable capital fee towards facility operation and maintenance: 2,200 without tax and 2,420 with it for a student from a new family, 1,100 and 1,210 for a returning one. Tuition is paid in four quarterly instalments. A tuition assistance programme exists and the school names its lower bound, starting at 5,000.
Admissions The first condition is strict: the child must hold a foreign, that is non-Turkish, passport and be able to obtain a Turkish residence permit. The family then contacts the admissions counsellor, names any special needs and may arrange a campus tour. The application asks for the child's passport, residence permit, a recent photo, at least two years of previous school report cards translated into English, the name and email of a current teacher or principal for a reference, a childhood vaccination record, standardized test results if any, and reports documenting special needs if any. Admissions testing follows where the counsellor decides it is needed. The Admissions Committee reviews completed applications and its decision reaches the family by email.
Stages and year groups Grades PreK-12. A full school from pre-kindergarten at age four through grade 12, divided into an elementary section from pre-kindergarten to grade 6 and a secondary section from grade 7 to grade 12. There are forty classrooms. The secondary section adds Advanced Placement and honors courses to the regular ones.
Address İncek, 1, Turgut Özal Blv. No:18, 06830 Gölbaşı/Ankara
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeMSA · accreditationThe school is listed in the College Board Advanced Placement Course Ledger for the 2025-2026 school year. A separate secondary-school section of the site explains the AP programme and its examinations, and the school states that its grading scale is aligned with the College Board. The second record is accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools: the school writes that it is accredited by that association and fully approved by the Turkish Ministry of Education. Graduates receive an American diploma.
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
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 →MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
One of the oldest American accreditations, working since 1887 in more than a hundred countries and linked to the Office of Overseas Schools of the US State Department. It judges the school as an institution across twelve areas, including finances, governance, premises and student support.
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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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.
American programme
The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Exam results Over the last sixteen years five Oasis students have earned United States National Merit recognition, including one National Merit Finalist and one National Merit Scholar.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: The campus sits in the quiet Incek neighbourhood on the main thoroughfare of Turgut Ozal Blv., accented by trees, gardens and courtyards. It has forty classrooms with wireless network access and computer-based audio-visual equipment, customized science and computer labs and a well-stocked library. The fine arts programme has a 300-seat theater, well-equipped art and music rooms and several instrumental practice rooms. Outdoors there are three synthetic turf soccer fields, a basketball court and a children's playground. Indoors there are two multi-purpose gymnasiums, a weight room and large dressing rooms with showers. There are two spacious cafeterias, an on-campus snack shop and an indoor student recreation area.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)75 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "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 8 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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