YTÜ Okulları is a private school on the campus of Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, and the university itself is named as its founder: it dates its history to 1911, holds ten faculties and three institutes, and is described by the school as a house of science with a strong technology and innovation ecosystem. The school sums itself up as a private school inside a university, and says it raises a generation with the enterprise and the courage to shape the future, taking responsibility for its own learning and working within a frame of sustainable development. The full name of the institution is Özel Yıldız Teknik Yüksel Göktürk İlkokulu; its status is that of a private school under the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and all its work follows the ministry's regulations. It stands on the Davutpaşa campus in Esenler. There are two stages: kindergarten classes and a primary school. The language of instruction is Turkish, and the school teaches English and French as foreign languages.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, French
About the fees The school publishes no prices: the registration section holds the student admission policy, the admissions office page and a registration form, while fee amounts by stage and any note about value added tax are absent from the open pages.
Admissions Admission is set out in the school's student admission policy: registrations are made within the places the school itself determines, under the ministry regulations for private schools. A separate admissions office with its own opening hours handles visits and applications, and the registration form sits with that office. No entrance tests are named.
Stages and year groups Grades anasınıfı, ilkokul. The school keeps kindergarten classes and a primary school. In the kindergarten classes the early-years teachers and the English teachers plan together and lead lessons side by side, so English runs inside the ordinary day rather than as a lesson apart.
Address Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Davutpaşa Yerleşkesi, Çifte Havuzlar Mahallesi, Eski Londra Asfaltı Caddesi No:159/1, 34220 Esenler, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB registry, and it states that it takes the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate as the pedagogical guide for its work. It gives no separate section on the authorisation and no entry number or date.
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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
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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 transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school stands on the Davutpaşa university campus and explains its format as a school inside a university; it gives sections of its own to many-sided development of the child, to food and to activity indoors and outdoors.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
There is no data for this section yet.
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 at the median60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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 6 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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