A private school in Ankara run by ESS Eğitim Hizmetleri A.Ş. It works on three sites inside the city: Çayyolu in Alacaatlı, Beytepe, and the high school campus in İncek. The school builds itself on a promise that a pupil will need no outside courses or private tutors, because support and guidance are kept inside the school. The high school runs two curricula at once, Turkish and British. A separate strand is the school's winter and summer language programmes in London, which it calls B-London and describes as practice that raises an existing level of English rather than a beginner's course.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish, English
About the fees Fees are published as three separate tables, one for the Çayyolu campus, one for Beytepe and one for the high school. After-school care, the summer school, sport and art courses and the uniform are charged separately.
Admissions Admission starts with a form on the school's site. Within one working day the public relations office calls and sets an appointment. The first meeting is a conversation between parents and a school representative about how the school works and what rules it keeps. A second appointment follows, with both parents and the child: the admissions committee runs it under the school's own internal regulations.
Stages and year groups Levels: kindergarten, primary school, middle school and an Anatolian high school. English starts in kindergarten alongside the class teacher, mathematics and science in English are added from the first grade, and the high school opens with a preparatory year followed by IGCSE and A Level.
Address Alacaatlı Mah. Park Cad. No: 7, Çankaya, Ankara
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the Cambridge examination centre registry, including as a centre that takes private candidates. In the high school the British course runs alongside the Turkish curriculum: two years of IGCSE and two years of A Level, which the school calls a dual diploma programme and the first of its kind in Ankara. The first high school year is a preparatory class that brings a pupil to the level of English A Level needs. Cambridge Checkpoint results are reported in the school's news. The school does not publish its Cambridge centre number.
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
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Makerspace
Campus: The Çayyolu campus has two four-storey blocks, about 7000 square metres indoors and 3000 outdoors, two lifts for pupils with reduced mobility and a waiting room for parents. The İncek high school campus has two ten-storey blocks, about 10000 square metres indoors and 6000 outdoors.
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 staff
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·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%)85 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 data75 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 data90 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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