Minecan began in 1991 with a kindergarten that Güzide Nur Özveren opened for her own children; the primary school followed in 2017 and the middle school in 2019. The school is marking 35 years of work. All three stages stand on one site in the Çukurova district. The school describes its middle school through inquiry-based learning and the IB learner profile, sport, art and foreign languages. It lists thirteen clubs. At the end-of-year foreign language showcase pupils perform in English, German and French.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German, French
Stages and year groups The stages are kindergarten, primary school and middle school, all at one address. The school publishes no class or pupil numbers. In the kindergarten and primary school, class teachers and subject teachers plan activities together. The kindergarten day runs from 08:00 to 17:00 with breakfast served until 09:00; the primary day runs from 08:45 to 16:24, and before the children go home they are given an afternoon meal cooked in the school that day.
Address Karslılar Mah. 82064 Sokak No:12-18, Çukurova, Adana
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school keeps a separate section on the IB Primary Years Programme: it explains that the programme is designed for children aged 3 to 11, is built on inquiry and six transdisciplinary themes and is flexible enough to fit most national curricula. The school does not give its IB code or the year of authorisation.
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.
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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
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Clubs and activities: list on the school website
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
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%)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 data70 Value for money (6%) scored at the median71 "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 5 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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Adana, Turkey · est. 1991 · Private