← Back to the rankingÖzel Acıbadem Okulları
Istanbul, Turkey · est. 2012 · Private
Illustration · Istanbul
A private full-day school in Üsküdar running preschool, primary and middle school. It was founded in 2012 in the Acıbadem neighbourhood as part of Boğaziçi Eğitim Hizmetleri. Since 2017 it has admitted students on two campuses under the line it prints on its own front page, Two Campuses One Acıbadem. Planning is done from a single centre and the work of the campuses is coordinated between them. Alongside the two main campuses the school runs two separate kindergartens in Üsküdar, Sultantepe and Gülağacı. The school names the Ministry of National Education curriculum as its main guide and runs the IB Primary Years Programme on top of it.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Admissions Admission runs through a structured conversation with a counselling specialist and a separate family interview with a deputy head. For kindergarten the conversation is built around the child's age and stage of development and assesses readiness for school, while the family interview looks at how parent and school will work together. For first grade, tests and inventories of school readiness replace that conversation, again alongside the family interview. Grades 2, 3 and 4 are filled within quota in order of application, after the same acquaintance work and a readiness assessment.
Stages and year groups Preschool, primary and middle school. The Gülağacı and Sultantepe kindergartens take children aged 36 to 71 months, the kindergarten classes on the Acıbadem and Çamlıca campuses take 45 to 71 months, and first grade opens at 69 months under ministry rules. There is no high school: the education section ends with middle school. The school does not state how many classes run in parallel or how many students sit in one class.
Address Acıbadem Mah. Çeçen Sok. No: 48, iç kapı No: 1, Üsküdar, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · accreditationIB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the CIS registry as accredited and in the IB registry under code 061209. The IB authorization covers the Primary Years Programme and, in the school's own words, applies on both the Acıbadem and Çamlıca campuses. It began preparation in 2018, was granted IB PYP candidate status in March 2019 and completed authorization in January 2021. Its accreditations section holds these two entries, CIS and IB PYP, and names no other organization.
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). 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.
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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
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 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%)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 on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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.
The full methodology → Similar schools in the country