← Back to the rankingUlus Özel Musevi Okulları
Istanbul, Turkey · est. 1914 · Private
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The oldest Jewish school in Istanbul: it took its first students in 1914 on Yemeniçi street under the name Midrasha Yavne, founded by the Bene Berit association on the initiative of Jozef Niyego and Dr David Markus. Its own motto says it has been writing the future for 106 years. Today the school calls itself Ulus Jewish Schools, teaches the Turkish national curriculum and AP courses, and from the preschool stage runs two separate language programmes, English and Hebrew. The College Board registry writes the school's name with the Turkish word Yahudi while the school itself writes Musevi; the two words mean the same thing.
Key facts
Programmes
AP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, Hebrew
About the fees The school does not state its fees on the site: there is no page on charges or enrolment in the menu at all.
Admissions The school does not publish admission rules on its site: there are no sections on applying, testing or deadlines in the menu, and contact with families runs through the contact page and the school mailbox.
Stages and year groups The school holds four stages under one name and one website: preschool, primary, middle and high school. AP courses open from grade 10. The high school has no page of its own but does have its own telephone line, and the registry entry is made at high school level. The school does not say from what age it takes preschool children.
Address Ulus, 34340 İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the College Board AP Course Ledger under number 696178, entered at high school level. Its own site confirms this: it has a section on the AP programme, calls itself an international AP examination centre and says its students sit those exams at their own school, joined by students from other schools.
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
College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
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. Authorisation here runs a year at a time: the register lists the school for the 2025-2026 school year.
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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.
National programme
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
Exam results The school teaches AP courses from grade 10 and names the set: Calculus AB and BC, Chemistry, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Studio Art, Psychology and Computer Science. Its students sit the exams at their own school as an international AP examination centre. The school says a result in chemistry, physics, psychology and computer science exempts a graduate from those courses in the first year of university, and names the Turkish universities its leavers go to: Middle East Technical, Koç, Sabancı and Özyeğin. No numerical exam results are given.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: Digital libraries, laboratories, art and music rooms, indoor and outdoor sports facilities and playgrounds. The auditorium hosts local and international guest speakers and doubles as a stage for theatre and dance. The school gallery regularly exhibits work by renowned artists. The primary school library holds more than three thousand books in several languages, and the high school digital library hosts elective courses in entrepreneurship, arbitration and business administration.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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%)63 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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 7 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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