SANKO Schools is a co-educational K-12 day school in Gaziantep, founded on 10 September 2001 with 530 students. It now serves 1,338 students from kindergarten to grade 12, including 139 full scholarship holders. The school follows the Turkish national curriculum, runs the IB Primary Years Programme in its lower grades and offers College Board Advanced Placement courses in the high school; graduates receive the Turkish national high school diploma. Two separately licensed institutions work inside the school, Ozel SANKO Koleji and Ozel SANKO Fen ve Teknoloji Lisesi; the high school and kindergarten buildings opened on 25 February 2012 and the science and technology high school started the same year. Average class size is 24 and the student-teacher ratio is 8:1. The school belongs to SANKO Holding.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · AP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
About the fees Fees for the 2026-27 school year are published as separate downloadable documents per stage: kindergarten and primary school, middle school, grade 9 of Ozel SANKO Koleji and Fen ve Teknoloji Lisesi, grades 10 to 12 of Ozel SANKO Koleji, and grades 10 to 12 of Fen ve Teknoloji Lisesi. Grade 9 registration follows the central examination calendar announced by the ministry. The renewal procedure, the list of required documents and the fee table are sent to parents separately.
Admissions Students enter SANKO High School in grade 9 by two routes: internal admission from the school's own middle division for students who meet the GPA requirement, or external admission based on the nationwide high school entrance examination. The school says it typically accepts students within the top 5.39 percentile. A limited number of transfer students may be admitted to upper grades where places are available. For kindergarten and the youngest groups, families either visit the school or fill in the pre-registration form on the site: candidates are invited in order of application, the counselling staff run a development inventory and an interview, findings are shared with parents, and on a positive decision the family completes registration within a set period.
Stages and year groups Stages: kindergarten and preparatory class, primary school, middle school, Anadolu Lisesi and Fen ve Teknoloji Lisesi, with grade 12 as the leaving year. The IB Primary Years Programme covers the lower grades. The high school follows the Turkish curriculum: grades 9 and 10 carry compulsory physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, history, geography, English, religion and ethics, a second foreign language, physical education and visual arts, to which the school adds AP courses and elective subjects. Average class size is 24.
Address Pancarlı Mahallesi, Kültür Caddesi No: 10, 27060 Şehitkamil
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeCollege Board · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB registry and was authorized to run the Primary Years Programme in May 2022, becoming an IB World School. It also states that its science and technology high school received Level 2 authorization from the College Board on 3 August 2023 and works as an AP exam centre: from the 2023-24 school year AP courses run for its own students and AP exams are held both for them and for external candidates. The school is named an official award centre of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award and takes part in the Eco-Schools programme. The science and technology high school, the senior stage of the same institution, stands in the College Board AP Course Ledger for the 2025-2026 academic year as Ozel Sanko Fen Ve Teknoloji Lisesi with centre code 132059. The school says so itself: on 3 August 2023 the high school received second-level authorisation and with it became an AP examination centre, open to outside candidates as well.
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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 →College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
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
Exam results From grade 9 the school runs Versant tests once each term to measure English against an international scale, and from grade 11 it prepares pupils for the PTE examinations. It publishes no results of its own in figures.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: A campus of roughly 30 acres with a kitchen workshop, a chess room and several specialised studios.
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
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Academics and programmes (16%)75 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data75 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%)no datathe criterion switches on once there is data about the teachers Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data95 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.
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Gaziantep, Turkey · est. 2001 · Private