Ay Okulları is a private school in Küçükköy in Istanbul, keeping a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school and a high school at one address. It describes itself as a bilingual school with international education programmes and claims more than ten years of experience and 63 certified teachers. The primary school runs the IB Primary Years Programme and is presented as a place of transdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning rather than preparation for a single exam. The school's own motto speaks of raising generations enlightened by knowledge, enriched by art and strengthened by sport. It does not call itself a network: the campus switch in the header leads to the same single address.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
About the fees The school publishes no prices: the admissions section holds a registration form and telephone numbers, while amounts by stage and any note about value added tax are absent.
Admissions Admission runs through an application: the school asks families to fill in a registration form, call the admissions office or come for a campus visit, after which it promises to explain what it can offer the child. No entrance tests and no requirements for applicants are named.
Stages and year groups Grades anaokulu, ilkokul, ortaokul, lise. Four stages share one address: kindergarten, primary school, middle school and high school. The IB registry entry belongs to the primary school; the other stages follow the national curriculum.
Address Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa Mahallesi, 1058 Sokak No: 40, Küçükköy, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe IB registry entry stands against the primary school, Özel Ay İlkokulu, and the school itself says that this stage works within the IB Primary Years Programme and gives students a transdisciplinary outlook from the early years. On its home page the school also names Cambridge programmes alongside IB, but it holds no Cambridge registry entry, so this card carries no Cambridge mark.
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). 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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
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 63 certified teachers and describes them as a specialist teaching body with international experience.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
There is no data for this section yet.
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 at the median60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data55 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 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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