A private institution operating in Ankara since 2006, on a site in the Eryaman district. The school describes itself as an institution with a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, a science high school and an Anatolian high school, subject to the rules of the Ministry of National Education. Its international side is twofold: IB authorisation for the primary and the final stage, and membership of the Council of International Schools. Turkish remains the language of instruction; the school calls English an additional language and runs it as a separate programme at every stage. The school has two campuses: the main one in Eryaman and a kindergarten in Batıkent.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP, DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
About the fees The school does not publish tuition fees on its site. The admissions section sets out the enrolment conditions for each stage, but carries no fee table and no separate fees page, and VAT is not mentioned at all.
Admissions Admission begins with a preliminary interview with the parent and the child. After it the candidate books an appointment with the guidance and psychological counselling unit, which first interviews the student individually and then the parents, and then, in the presence of the school counsellor, applies the school's own inventories covering the student's areas of development and assesses readiness. The unit passes the result of that assessment to the school administration and to the parents, and only then is the registration completed. The Göksu kindergarten admits children from thirty to seventy-one months as of the end of September.
Stages and year groups The school keeps a full run of stages on one site in Eryaman: kindergarten, primary school, middle school, an Anatolian high school and a science high school. The primary stage follows the IB PYP framework and the final stage the IB Diploma Programme, both on top of the Ministry curriculum. Children are admitted to the kindergarten if they have completed thirty months by the end of September and are no older than seventy-one months. The school's second kindergarten stands as a separate campus in Batıkent and has no school stages.
Address Göksu Mahallesi, 93. Cadde No:6/1A, Eryaman, Ankara
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, DP · authorised programmeCIS · membershipThe school is listed in the International Baccalaureate register under code 060339, with two authorised programmes: the Primary Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. It does not hold the Middle Years Programme. In the Council of International Schools the school is a member, not an accredited school: the CIS directory returns Accredited: No for this record, and the school itself says exactly the same on its accreditations page, describing itself as a CIS member school. The diploma it awards is the state one: in its own words, all of its students receive a Turkish Ministry of National Education high school diploma. The school also names taking part in the Global Schools programme, but that record carries no threshold and does not count as a mark here.
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
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), 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. 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 →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 belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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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
✓LibraryThe school has a library, with a section of the site of its own.
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
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 roomThe school has a health unit, with a section of the site of its own.
✓CounsellorThe school has a guidance and psychological counselling unit: it conducts the admission interviews, applies the school's developmental inventories and supports students at every stage.
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%)no datathe criterion switches on once there is data about the teachers Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median80 "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 6 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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Ankara, Turkey · est. 2006 · Private