Turuncu Eğitim Kurumları
Izmir, Turkey · est. 2014 · PrivateThe school stands in Torbalı, a district of İzmir, and grew out of a primary and middle school: Turuncu Eğitim Kurumları opened Turuncu İlkokul and Ortaokul in 2014 and added the Anadolu Lisesi and the Fen Lisesi in 2018. Five stages now run at one address - kindergarten, primary school, middle school, Anadolu Lisesi and Fen Lisesi - and the school lists them in its Okullarımız section. Every classroom has an internet-based interactive board, science lessons run in the school's own laboratories, and students stage at least one play a year on the school's Kemal Sunal stage. Two foreign languages are taught, English and German, with Spelling Bee and Quiz Show contests, the Deutsche Brieffreunde correspondence and, in high school, Model United Nations, Destination Imagination and the Oxford Big Read. Preschool groups take English, chess, drama, music, classical ballet, the P for C thinking course and visual arts on top of the programme. The school reports student wins in sport and science: first place in İzmir in folk dance, the Turkish table tennis championship, second place in İzmir in basketball, places in chess and taekwondo, and projects entered for the TÜBİTAK contest. The school belongs to its own group, Turuncu Eğitim Kurumları, which has one address and one campus.
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College Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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.
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.