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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan · est. 1993 · State
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A Turkish state school of the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MEB) in Ashgabat, run jointly with Turkmenistan: "Ortak Türkmen Türk Okulu" ("Joint Turkmen-Turkish School"). Three institutions work at one address, 36 Magtymguly Avenue: a primary school with a preschool class (Aşkabat Türk İlkokulu), a middle school (Aşkabat Türk Ortaokulu) and a high school (Aşkabat Türk Anadolu Lisesi), with a shared website, otto.meb.k12.tr. According to the ministry, the school was founded in 1993. Lessons are taught by Turkish and Turkmen teachers. The school website is in Turkish, and the language of instruction is inferred from that; English, Russian and Turkmen are taught as foreign languages, and the staff includes teachers of Turkmen language and literature, Russian and the history of Turkmenistan. Classes run in a single shift: primary 08:40-12:50, middle 08:40-13:40, high school 08:20-14:10. The school does not publish fees, admission conditions or clubs.
Key facts
Programmes
Turkish programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, Russian, Turkmen
Admissions Turkey's Ministry of National Education, which owns the school, states that following a new agreement between Turkey and Turkmenistan foreign pupils may also enrol; the pupils are Turkish and Turkmen children.
Stages and year groups One campus, three MEB institutions at one address, Magtymguly Şayoly No/36: Aşkabat Türk İlkokulu with a preschool class (anasınıfı), Aşkabat Türk Ortaokulu and Aşkabat Türk Anadolu Lisesi. The address was checked on each institution's own page; the spelling differs, the building is the same: "Matumguli Şayolu No/36" (primary), "Mahtumguli Şa Yolu No36" (middle), "Magtymguly Şayoly No/36" (high school). Each institution states its own enrollment: primary 109, middle 202, high school 84, 395 in total. Single-shift classes ("Normal"): primary 08:40-12:50, middle 08:40-13:40, high school 08:20-14:10.
Address Magtymguly Şayoly No/36, Aşkabat, Türkmenistan
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
MEBThis listing rests on the list of overseas schools of Turkey's Ministry of National Education: under Turkmenistan it names Aşkabat Türk İlkokulu, Aşkabat Türk Ortaokulu and Aşkabat Türk Anadolu Lisesi. All three stand at one address and are combined into one campus listing. The curriculum is the Turkish state one and the certificate is Turkish. This is not an international accreditation or an assessment of the school: an institution is on the list by belonging to the ministry.
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MEBMinistry of National Education of Turkey
The school was opened by the Turkish education ministry and belongs to it: the Turkish national curriculum, teaching in Turkish, the state e-Okul records system and the Turkish leaving certificate at the end. Every such school is named on the ministry's open list, each with its own institution number and a website in the state meb.k12.tr zone.
What the badge means for this school. This is a Turkish state school abroad, and that can be checked on the ministry's list. The entry is not a quality inspection: a school gets onto the list by belonging to the ministry, not by being assessed. The curriculum and the certificate are Turkish, and the school awards no international diploma. Whether it takes a child with no Turkish, and what it charges, are on its own website. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The state school programme of Turkey, with the Turkish leaving certificate.
What this means for this school. The programme is set by the Turkish ministry of national education, which also licenses the school and awards the certificate. The Turkish certificate is used for entry to Turkish universities; outside Turkey it has to be matched to the local one.
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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus:
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
Each institution states its own number of teachers: primary 3, middle 7, high school 9. The shared staff list on the high school website names 27 teachers across all levels, including 2 preschool teachers, and 6 administrators. Lessons are taught by Turkish and Turkmen teachers ("Okullarımızda dersler Türk ve Türkmen Öğretmenler tarafından okutulmaktadır").
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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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%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median90 "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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