The school was founded by Bahtiyar Düzyol and Yetiş Aslan. By its own history the idea took shape in 1991, the Kariyer courses opened in 1999 and nurseries and kindergartens opened with them; between 1999 and 2012 the group ran six course centres and two kindergartens in the Keçiören, Yenimahalle and Altındağ districts of Ankara. In 2012 all of it moved to Batıkent, to the Çakırlar quarter, into one large building holding a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school, an Anatolian high school, a vocational health high school and a science high school. A second campus opened in Etimesgut in 2013 and today runs an Anatolian high school and a middle school. In 2014 the kindergarten, primary school and middle school moved into a separate Batıkent campus of 18,600 square metres with an indoor pool, and in 2022 another Batıkent building opened. The school runs eTwinning and Eko-Okullar projects and writes about its STEM work.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German
About the fees The school does not name tuition on its site and publishes no fee table for any stage.
Admissions Applications are taken through a pre-registration form on the site and by telephone; the selection procedure, any entrance tests and the deadlines are not described on the site.
Stages and year groups The primary school sits on the Batıkent campus, where a kindergarten, a primary school and a middle school run under one name. The PYP runs in the primary school, which keeps its own section of the site with its own menu: about us, life on campus, the PYP programme, STEM and the dining hall. The school publishes its PYP newsletters on a separate page.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB registry under number 061132 with the PYP stage. It states that as of June 2021 it met the requirements of the Primary Years Programme and is an authorised IB World School. It runs the national curriculum of the Turkish ministry of education with the six transdisciplinary themes of the PYP built into it. No centre number or IB code is given on the site; the programme coordinator is named.
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 from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio · Playground · Makerspace
Campus: The Batıkent campus covers 18,600 square metres: a building for the kindergarten, primary and middle school, a separate high school building, a conference hall and workshops for 3D printing, computing, drama, visual arts and logic games.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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 data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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 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.
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Ankara, Turkey · est. 2012 · Private