Bilgi Koleji has worked in Samsun since 2004 and keeps a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school and a high school it calls Bilgi Akademi on one site in the Atakum district. The school describes itself through eight strands: sport and healthy living, art and culture, twenty-first century skills, technology and innovation, academic achievement, multilingual teaching, a dual diploma programme and online access to the Canadian curriculum. It explains the dual diploma as international accreditation leading to two certificates, and the Canadian part as direct online access to the Canadian curriculum rather than teaching on site. The school is open on weekdays from 08:00 to 18:00 and on Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:00.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Admissions Admission starts with a pre-registration form: the parent picks a stage, leaves a telephone number and receives a call from one of the school's advisers, who takes them through the rest. The school promises early enrolment advantages and scholarships. No entry requirements, entrance tests or dates appear on the site.
Stages and year groups The stages are a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school and a high school the school calls Bilgi Akademi, all on one site in Atakum. The school publishes no class or pupil numbers. The enrolment form on the site lists exactly these four stages.
Address İstiklal Mahallesi 893. Sokak, İstiklal Caddesi No:43, 55200 Atakum, Samsun
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeThe school calls itself an international Cambridge school and itself places on its home page a link to the official site of Cambridge Assessment International Education, where its entry in the list of recognised Cambridge schools can be seen. The register holds that entry as a centre for private candidates. The school names neither the stages of the Cambridge programme nor its examination centre number.
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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
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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
There is no data for this section yet.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
✓CCTV
✓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
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%)60 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%)no datathe criterion switches on once there is data about the teachers Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored at the median70 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 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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Samsun, Turkey · est. 2004 · Private