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Istanbul, Turkey · est. 2006 · Private
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The Acarkent campus sits inside the gated Acarkent estate in Beykoz and has been part of the Doğa Koleji network since the 2006-2007 school year. The stages run from kindergarten up to high school, the high school has an English preparatory year, and in grades 11 and 12 the school teaches the IB diploma, which graduates receive alongside the Turkish school-leaving certificate. Sciences, mathematics and the business subjects are taught in English, and the second foreign language is German or Spanish by choice. The grounds are about 16 thousand square metres with four buildings: an indoor pool, a naturally frozen ice rink, a two-level conference hall, robotics and three-dimensional modelling rooms, farming plots and a botanical garden. The school names its graduates one by one together with their universities: UC Berkeley, Bocconi, KU Leuven, Tilburg, Groningen, Warwick, Sapienza, Politecnico di Torino. The school does not publish its number of students or the youngest age it admits.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 022–14 500 a year
242 456–700 000 TRY
Languages of instruction
Turkish, English
Languages taught
German, Spanish
About the fees The campus price list gives a separate figure for every grade, and the figures within one stage differ by a factor of two and a half. The school adds: “Erken kayıt ve diğer tüm indirim avantajları için kampüslerimizi ziyaret edebilirsiniz” and “2026-2027 Eğitim Öğretim Yılı kayıt ücretleri daha sonra ilan edilecektir”.
Admissions Applicants to the high school sit an English exam: “Liseye yeni başlayacak olan öğrenciler 'İngilizce Yeterlilik Sınavı'na alınır. Bu sınavda başarılı olan öğrenciler, eğitimine 9. sınıftan başlar. Diğer öğrencilerimize ise bir yıl boyunca hazırlık sınıflarımızda İngilizce programı uygulanır”. Selection for the IB programme happens at the end of grade 10 by decision of the teaching board: English no lower than 70, no single grade below 60, plus requirements for learning qualities. The network holds a scholarship exam with discounts of up to 100 percent.
Stages and year groups Grades From kindergarten (ana sınıfı) to grade 12 of high school. The campus runs every stage from kindergarten up to high school; the high school has a preparatory year. From the preparatory year onward and in all parallel classes the school follows the ministry-approved “Uluslararası Bakalorya Haftalık Ders Çizelgesi”, the preparatory year and grades 9 and 10 carry courses aligning MEB with IB, and the IB diploma itself is taught in grades 11 and 12. The campus also runs a primary school for gifted children (“Üstün Zekalılar İlkokulu”).
Address Acarlar Mah. 3. Cad. No:12, Acarkent Sitesi, Beykoz, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeDoğa Koleji · school is part of the networkschool 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
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: DP (ages 16-19). 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 →Doğa Kolejischool network
A large Turkish school network founded in 2002 - the year the network repeats on three of its own pages. Its own age it gives three ways: 23 years in the brand and vision sections, 25 years on the enrolment page and in the franchise form, and a quarter of a century on the home page banner; all three are given here, because the network does not choose between them. Its campus list gives 103 sites, 102 of them in Turkey and one in Northern Cyprus, at Famagusta on the Eastern Mediterranean University campus. WHAT MATTERS FOR A PARENT: international accreditation belongs not to the network but to individual campuses, and there are two - Beykoz and Acarkent, both near Istanbul, both in the International Baccalaureate register. In the five other registers we sweep the network has no entry at all. So the network's name by itself says nothing about a given school's international programme - the campus is what to look at. What the network's site nowhere states: which campuses it owns, which it manages and which operate under licence. Three different names stand around the network - the İTÜ ETA foundation inside the schools' own names, Can Eğitim Grubu in a press clipping on its own site, and ARI İnovasyon ve Bilim Eğitim Hizmetleri A.Ş. in its own data-protection notices - and no page explains how they relate. The network does franchise, in its own words as a licensed school: every page carries a form to apply for one. That silence is recorded here rather than filled in.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Average IB score
34 (world average 30.88)
Exam results For May 2021 the school reports: “IB öğrencilerimiz, 2021 Mayıs döneminde %100 diploma başarısı ve 34 diploma puan ortalaması ile mezun olmuştur”. It also claims a 100 percent diploma rate for 2014-2015, adding that the graduates of that year received 365,000 dollars in scholarships in total. Individual SAT results the school gives by name rather than as an average: Hasan Hakan Sarıca - 1480 out of 1600 (2022), Teoman Akça - 1430 out of 1600 and 800 out of 800 in SAT Mathematics Level 2 (2021).
Where leavers go: UC Berkeley · University of Groningen · University of Warwick · KU Leuven · Sapienza University of Rome · Tilburg University · Willem de Kooning Academy · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Politecnico di Torino · Southern Methodist University · SUNY University at Buffalo · Delft University of Technology and others, 32 universities in the school's list in all
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming poolAn indoor swimming pool
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓LaboratoriesA three-dimensional imaging room, the Venüs room (together with Vestel), engineering labs, coding and robotics labs with three-dimensional printers
✓Theatre or assembly hallA two-level conference hall; the campus hosts international seminars Pocket cinemas (cep sinemaları)
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: About 16,000 sq m inside the Acarkent estate, four main buildings. The school describes the campus as a “lise eğitimini spor ve sanatla buluşturan bir teknoloji üssü”. Classrooms with interactive boards
Clubs and activities: Biology · Music · Basketball · Volleyball · Robotics · Equestrian
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The network runs a summer school, “Doğa Koleji Yaz Okulları”, in two sessions, half-day and full-day, in coding and robotics, swimming, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics and English. The announcement does not list which campuses take part, and the separate summer school page on the domain opens the home page.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school names the IB high school staff one by one, with their subjects: Yeliz Büyükarslan and Salih Çakır (Turkish literature), Betül Keskin and Neslikan Özkan (English), Çağhan Sarı (Turkey in the 20th century), Zeynep Büşra Sungur (business management, theory of knowledge), Afroze Farooq (business management), Gökhan Aldemir and Simay Bostancı (physics), Mustafa Abidinoğlu (chemistry, CAS coordinator), Nevra Düşer (biology, environmental systems), Büşra Merve Yıldırım and Begüm Güzey (mathematics), Özgenur Fildağlı (counselling service), Aybers Soycan (study abroad adviser). The school lists its requirements for IB teachers separately: sufficient subject knowledge, the ability to lead a discussion, fluent English in the classroom, completed IB training, and work in the “My IB” exchange network. Campus leadership: Sevgi Onay (primary school principal), Öznur Öztürk (deputy), Erkan Polat (high school principal), Derya Matyar (deputy), Mustafa Evren (middle school deputy principal). The school does not give the staff of the primary and middle stages, nor the teacher-to-student ratio.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staffThe campus page names “özel güvenlik sistemleri”, “anti-radyoaktif sistemler”, “anti GSM alanları” and “depreme dayanıklı esnek sütunlar”
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓CounsellorÖzgenur Fildağlı is named among the IB high school staff, for counselling and psychological support. The network runs a “Rehberlik ve Psikolojik Danışmanlık” service across K12: settling-in weeks, individual consultations, group sessions, parent workshops, and its own career-orientation test D-KTYT.
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school names no child protection policy, no checks at hiring, no staff training and no medical room: it writes nothing about child protection anywhere on its pages.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data76 "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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