A private school in Tarabya in northern Istanbul, run by the legal entity Ozel Tarabya Ingiliz Okullari Ticaret A.S. It takes students from primary school through to the final year and delivers the Turkish national curriculum alongside Cambridge IGCSE and A-Level. It keeps sections on the Duke of Edinburgh International Award, an Erasmus+ project, Model United Nations and university counselling. The registry domain tarabyabritishschools.com now redirects to tarabyaokullari.k12.tr, and the school today writes its own name in Turkish.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
About the fees The school prints no annual range: the fees and scholarships page is given over to scholarships, and the rate table itself does not render on it. The scholarships are listed and are cumulative. For the high school: three students in the top percentile band of the national LGS examination receive a full scholarship; a score of 85 or above in the school's own entrance examination gives 10 per cent; achievement in sport, art, social and cultural activity gives 5 per cent; a separate rate applies to a previous-year average of 4.50 or higher. For the primary and middle schools only a sibling discount applies, at 5 per cent.
Admissions For high school entry the school collects a document pack: a transcript - report cards or grade records for grades 6, 7 and 8 for grade 9 candidates, and for the last three years for candidates to intermediate grades; an English examination result, either a language proficiency certificate or the result of the school's own examination; two reference letters from administrators or teachers at the previous school; a letter of intent in which the student sets out their goals and why they want to study at Tarabya; four photographs, a copy of the identity document, and evidence of achievement in sport, art and social activity. Documents are accepted in person, by courier to the school address or by email.
Stages and year groups One school in three licensed institutions on a single site in Tarabya: Ozel Tarabya Primary School, Ozel Tarabya Middle School and Ozel Tarabya Anatolian High School. The Cambridge stages run in the high school: the school places IGCSE at ages 14-16 and A-Level in the final years.
Address Tarabya Mah. Şalcıkır Sokak No:44, Sarıyer / İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
COBIS · accreditationCambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeThe COBIS registry lists the school as a COBIS Accredited Member, and the Cambridge registry carries a record marked for private candidates. The school keeps its own accreditations page showing the marks of the Ministry of National Education, COBIS, ISI, Cambridge, the Duke of Edinburgh International Award, the British Chamber of Commerce, UCAS, TSE, the Europe Business Assembly and the Academic Union; the page explains nothing in text, everything stands as images. The school names two Cambridge stages in its own words on separate pages: IGCSE as the qualification for ages 14-16 and preparation for A-Level, and its own A-Level programme. No Cambridge centre number is published.
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
COBISCouncil of British International Schools
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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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.
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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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
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%)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 data55 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 data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median65 "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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