A state Anatolian high school in the Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul. Two foreign languages are taught, English and German. On top of the national curriculum the school runs the Cambridge IGCSE line: in its own words students complete the courses of the international programme and receive certificates, and it describes the certificate ceremonies as a regular event. The school holds Erasmus accreditation and writes a great deal about European projects and about the German language olympiad. There is no boarding house; a bus service covers the European side of the city.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German
About the fees This is a state high school of the Ministry of National Education and the site announces no tuition. Nothing on the pages says what taking part in the Cambridge programme or sitting its examinations costs.
Admissions Entry is through the national LGS examination. The page about the school gives no cut-off scores: for both the scores and the percentile bands it sends readers to the guidance service section.
Stages and year groups Grades 9-12. A state Anatolian high school: grades nine to twelve. The day runs from 8:00 to 14:55 with a lunch break from 12:00 to 12:40. There is no boarding house, and the school says so plainly.
Address Maltepe Mahallesi, Askeri Fırın Sokak No 6/1, 34010 Zeytinburnu, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeThe Cambridge line sits in the school's Uluslararasi Egitim section and is run as a taught programme leading to certificates: it has a coordinator drawn from the English teachers and a team of subject teachers, and the school has reported IGCSE certificate ceremonies for more than one year. It names the stage itself: IGCSE.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
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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
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus:
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%)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 data55 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 data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored at the median70 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 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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