A private school in Ordu, on a campus in the Altınordu district, running kindergarten, primary school, middle school and high school. The school states its Cambridge line plainly: it calls itself the first and only international Cambridge school of the Black Sea region. It describes its teaching as a double curriculum leading to a double diploma, with the Turkish national programme running stage by stage alongside the Cambridge one. The school speaks of 29 years of experience and hosts an IELTS Academic examination centre.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages
Turkish, English
About the fees The school does not publish tuition on its site: the admissions section describes only the route, an application, a reply within 24 hours, five working days to register, and early registration from January.
Admissions Everything starts with an application form: the admissions office promises to make contact within 24 hours and explain the steps. Early registration opens in January, and families may visit the campus and meet the management. Kindergarten places go in order of application after an interview, within a quota set each year, and admitted families have five working days to complete registration. Grade 1 takes the school's own kindergarten graduates, while higher primary grades require a written readiness assessment. Grade 5 takes the school's own primary graduates, others sit a readiness assessment. The high school takes its own middle school graduates, and outside applicants by readiness assessment within the quota.
Stages and year groups The stages run consecutively on one campus: kindergarten, primary school, middle school and high school. The Cambridge line follows the same steps: EYFS in kindergarten, Primary in the primary school, Secondary in the middle school, IGCSE and A Level in the high school.
Address Şirinevler Mahallesi, 687. Sokak No: 2, Altınordu, Ordu 52200
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Early Years, Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the Cambridge International centre registry, marked as accepting private candidates. It names its Cambridge stages itself: Cambridge EYFS in kindergarten, Primary in the primary school, Secondary in the middle school, IGCSE and A Level in the high school. No Cambridge centre number appears on the site. The school separately hosts an IELTS Academic centre, which is a language examination and not a school accreditation.
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: Early Years (ages 3-6), Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Early Years is the nursery stage, ages 3 to 6. There are no exams at the end: the stage describes what the youngest children are taught and how, and it follows the Cambridge frame rather than a national nursery programme. Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. 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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
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%)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 data55 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 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 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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