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Silifke, Turkey · est. 2023 · Private
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A private international school teaching in Russian in Silifke, in the west of Mersin province. It was created in July 2023 and runs as a single institution called the Kindergarten and School Complex: five buildings on four addresses in Silifke, with the middle and senior school on Sarıcalar Mahallesi, the primary school on Ayatekla Sokak and two kindergarten sections, Gazi and Goksu. Teaching on all three stages is in Russian, and the school states plainly that instruction is carried out in the Russian language. The institution works through the whole calendar year, Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 19:00, with lessons starting at eight in the morning; it is closed on Sundays and on Turkish public holidays, and follows a separate timetable in the school holidays. There are nine specialist rooms: physics, chemistry and biology laboratories, a technical drawing room, two technology and home economics rooms, two computer rooms and two assembly halls. On accessibility the school speaks in both directions: its rooms are conditionally suited to children with musculoskeletal conditions, including wheelchair and crutch users, and are not suited to blind or deaf children. The school has no boarding house, and says so in a line of its own.
Key facts
Programmes
Russian programme
Languages of instruction
Russian
About the fees The school does not publish tuition. There is no fees page in the menu, and the Financial and Economic Activity page opens empty. On the page for grants and support measures the school answers no to every item: no grants, no social support measures and no boarding accommodation.
Admissions Admission is built on knowledge diagnostics. Before the fifth grade candidates are given a combined diagnostic paper which, in the school's words, establishes the level of preparation and the leaning towards pre-specialisation directions; a demonstration version is published for parents to look through. Before the tenth grade parents and incoming tenth graders are asked to go through the specialised streams together with the child and choose one. Separately the school guides families through Denklik, the Turkish recognition of educational documents: its Parents page carries a general explanation and instructions for filling in the form on the Edenklik portal.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-11. The school runs a full school cycle through three consecutive Russian programmes: primary general education over four years, basic general over five years and secondary general over two. All three are taught in person and in Russian. Alongside them run a school-readiness group and a kindergarten in two sections, Gazi and Goksu. For the coming academic year the school has announced specialised tenth-grade streams and asked incoming tenth graders to choose a direction of study. The primary school has 25 teaching rooms and the basic school 27.
Address Sarıcalar Mahallesi 536 Sk. No:8/1 Silifke/Mersin, 33960
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Russian state accreditationThe school holds Russian state accreditation of its educational programmes, and its own Education page gives the term of that accreditation, from July 2023 to July 2035, and lists the accredited levels: primary general, basic general and secondary general education. For a family the practical meaning is single and large: on an accredited programme the graduate receives the Russian state school-leaving certificate used for entry to Russian universities. The accreditation does not grant the right to operate a school in Turkey, which comes from a Turkish licence, and it says nothing about teaching quality, premises or child safety. The school holds no international accreditation and no external programme such as IB or Cambridge, and claims none. It has left the Founders field on its General Information page empty.
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
Russian state accreditationFederal Service for Supervision in Education and Science
Russian state accreditation, held not by the school as a whole but by its educational programmes: on an accredited programme a leaver receives the Russian state-issued certificate. Institutions abroad are gathered in the registry under a code of their own, and their certificates carry a term - twelve years from issue. No visit to the school is intended: since 2022 the indicators are calculated from documents and returns.
What the badge means for this school. The school holds Russian state accreditation, and that can be checked in the open registry. It means the right to award the Russian certificate on the accredited programmes - and nothing about the quality of teaching, the premises or the school's international programme. Levels of education are accredited separately, so it is worth checking whether the accreditation reaches the final year. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The Russian school programme: a state-issued leaving certificate used for entry to Russian universities. The certificate is awarded on the results of the state final attestation - the OGE after Year 9 and the EGE after Year 11.
What this means for this school. This school holds Russian state accreditation: its education programmes have been checked by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, and the entry is visible in the open register. Accreditation is granted level by level, so the main question here is whether it runs as far as the final year: a school may have the right to award a certificate for Year 9 and not for Year 11.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: The institution occupies five buildings on four addresses in Silifke. The middle and senior school building has four floors: classrooms, rooms for technology, art, physics and chemistry, a sports hall, an assembly hall seating 184, a canteen with its own full-cycle kitchen, a buffet and a library. The primary school building has three floors, with lockers for personal belongings in the corridors, sports and assembly halls, a canteen and a buffet. Both buildings have a walled yard with shaded seating and courts for volleyball, mini-football and basketball, and there is a football pitch with a rubber crumb surface. Meals follow a ten-day cyclical menu with breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack, and the head chefs and the administration check the quality.
Clubs and activities: list on the school website
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
✓Security staff
✓Access control
✓Nurse or medical room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
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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 data80 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data61 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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