HIGH SCHOOL PROFILE  

Sadi Gülçelik Spor Sitesi, İstinye  Istanbul, Turkey | Tel: +    www.enka.k12.tr THE MISSION & IB DIPLOMA NO. CEEB VISION   The mission of ENKA Schools is to lay the intellectual and behavioral foundations that will prepare and motivate each individual to continuously develop to the full extent of THE SCHOOL his/her capacities, to instill the mental and ENKA is a private, non-profit Pre-K – 12 co-educational day school in Istanbul, Turkey moral habits fostering freedom of thought founded in 1996 as a center of educational excellence in the cultural capital of the country and action in themselves and others - to provide an inspirational model for schools within Turkey and internationally. irrespective of their origins, and to seek to be leading citizens of Turkey and their countries of origin. Our academic programs foster global awareness and incorporate academic excellence with a commitment to educate a globally-minded student population. Our programs PRINCIPLES promote leadership and responsibility. Developing the Learning Community: We believe… ENKA is commied to IB principles and practices which shape the teaching and learning in • in the centrality of learning rather than teaching; the school. ENKA was the first Turkish school in in the country to be authorized by the IB to • in the richness of each stage of human offer the IBPYP. development and the uniqueness of each person; and THE CAMPUS • that all children should learn at personally The campus is situated in the heart of the new business center of Istanbul, on the European challenging levels of achievement. side of Istanbul on 16 acres within the ENKA Sports Facility. The range of facilities demon- Developing the Individual: strates the importance ENKA places on contemporary education, sports, and the arts. The We believe… school’s academic facilities include three full science labs, 3 libraries totaling 40,000 • in the importance of character above all volumes, computer labs, a multimedia room, and contemporary purpose-built classrooms. else; In addition to these, it has an amphitheater, an exhibition center, a music hall, an art gallery, • in a commitment to the best that is within 2 indoor pools, an outdoor Olympic sized pool, 12 tennis courts, a full gymnasium, fitness each person. center, and a tartan track and field ring. Acting in the Local and Global Community: We respect all members of the community and diversity within the community; we recognize that the individual and the community are interdependent and have mutual responsibility; we advance the common good by serving the local, national and international community; we commit to THE STUDENTS raising global consciousness among all members of the school community; we know, • Primarily Turkish nationals, with appreciate and embrace the importance of approximately 10% dual citizens bilingualism for the individual and the Head of School society. Richard Bartlett • 100% of students continue on to higher [email protected] education •Approximately 75% matriculate to High School Principal universities abroad Erkan Gültekin [email protected] • 25% of High School students are recipients of academic scholarships Coordinator of College Counseling • 10% of High School students are Sandi Engler [email protected] recipients of elite athlete scholarships, THE FACULTY many of whom compete on Turkish College Counselor national teams or individually at the 168 50 Total 118 Foreign Güniz Gücükoğlu international level. Turkish [email protected] Teaching Nationals Nationals Staff IB DP Coordinator Enrolment Pre-School 178 68 11 7:1 50 Erwin Utchanah Nationalities Leadership [email protected] Primary School 360 Students Student to on staff Teacher Team and Middle School 350 in the Ratio Support Academic Coordinator High School 350 Class of Team Ann Lindsey TOTAL 1238 2018 A bilingual professional community is [email protected] fostered within the school. ACCREDITATIONS • Council of International Schools (CIS) • New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) • Fully authorized IBDP and PYP, with MYP in authorization candidacy stage • Turkish Ministry of Education (MEB)

CURRICULUM • All students meet the requirements for and receive a Turkish High School (Lise) Diploma. • All students follow a full IBDP curriculum. • Students in grades 9 and 10 follow the Turkish National Curriculum, along with IGCSE Interna- tional Math and English first language and IBMYP.

All students in grades 11 and 12 choose 6 IB courses. Those who qualify for and choose to pursue the Full Diploma choose 3 SL and 3 HL courses; IB course studies students choose a range of SL or SL and HL courses. The two-year IB program engages students in a challenging curriculum in an interactive way. Through inquiry and investigation students develop critical thinking skills, and hone their analytical abilities. Students’ IB choices are subject to academic perfor- mance and scheduling parameters. At present, ENKA offers the following IB subjects: Turkish A , English A, English B, French B, German B, Turkish Social Studies SL, Economics, ITGS, Psychology, Global Politics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Systems and Societies SL, Mathematics, Math Studies, Visual Arts, Music. It should be noted that students must also fulfill all requirements for the Turkish National Diploma and therefore, in addition to studying 6 IB courses and TOK, they take additional Non-IB courses.

LANGUAGE • Bi-lingual instruction, all students study a third language from grades 5-12. • English as the primary language of instruction in High School: → 55% in English for Grades 9-10 (students also learning a third language) →75% in English for Grades 11-12 (students also learning a third language) • High School Math and Science courses are taught in English.

ASSESSMENT & RANKING • All grades in Turkish High Schools are recorded on the Turkish Ministry of Education’s 100 point scale. Students are given grades each semester and the final course grade is an average of the two semesters. GPAs are calculated by multiplying grades by the number of course hours in each course. IB classes are not weighted and are graded on the same 100 Turkish scale. An average of 85 is required to earn high honors, and it is rare for students to do so. An average of 70 is required to earn academic honors and passing grade is 50.

COCURRICULAR ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES The co-curricular program plays an important role in the educational program we provide at ENKA. Students are offered nearly 70 club and 30 a er-school activity choices, giving them a wide range of social, cultural, and sporting options. Some of the options include: Each year the school and students organize many key events, Community Service Cooking including a dance festival, film festival and MUN conference, Duke of Edinburgh Intl. Award English Drama Turkish and English drama productions, year-end performances, Young Guru Academy Film Production local and international celebrations and festivals. All of these Model United Nations Dance European Youth Forum Yoga provide our students with many opportunities to express them- Intl. Chain of Awareness Ceramics selves. Interact Club Swimming School Magazine Exploring Istanbul ENKA is affiliated by THIMUN, European Youth Parliament, and Lego Robotics has a Global Member Round Square School since 2011. Through the Round Square programs, students have the opportunity to partici- pate in overseas service projects, school exchanges, and global COMMUNITY SERVICE conferences. Community Service is highly emphasized at the core of ENKA Many students take the opportunities ENKA provides through its School’s mission and this is reflected throughout K-12. Students incredible athletic, arts, performing arts, and music facilities to in the middle and high school are expected to meet minimum pursue their interests and passions in these areas. ENKA student community service hours. Students volunteer regularly athletes, musicians, and artists are highly successful participants throughout Istanbul as well as in community service projects in teams, competitions, and exhibitions both nationally and interna- throughout Turkey and internationally. For the past several tionally. Several students have ranked at the top in world champion- years, groups of students and teachers have traveled to under- ship events. In addition the school offers team and club sports in developed areas in Turkey and abroad to help disadvantaged over 10 sports. Our Arts students participate in clubs and activities children in Baksi, Finike, and Nepal and other locations. such as: theatre, school chamber orchestra, various music groups, film creation and film festival, art club, photography club, and art projects with Turkish Museums. SAT RESULTS   SAT SUBJECT RESULTS ACT RESULTS     Math   Math II   Reading Math 132 Test takers, Physics   Composite 25 Test takers, of whom Biology   Mean of whom Mean Mean 98% 98% */ */ were non-native Chemistry     were non-native English speakers French   English speakers *OLD SAT English Lit.   

IB DIPLOMA RECIPIENTS’ AVERAGE SCORE    :  The current world average IB Diploma score is 29.95.

TH GRADE IB SUBJECT DISTRIBUTIONS CLASS OF  . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . .

BIOLOGY SL           BIOLOGY HL           CHEMISTRY SL           CHEMISTRY HL           PHYSICS SL           PHYSICS HL           MATH EMATICS SL           MATH EMATICS HL           ENGLISH A SL           ENGLISH A HL           TURKISH SL           TURKISH HL           PSYCHOLOGY SL           PSYCHOLOGY HL           ECONOMICS SL           ECONOMICS HL           GERMAN SL           FRENCH SL           INFORMATION TECH. G.S. SL           INFORMATION TECH. G.S. HL           VISUAL ARTS HL           GLOBAL POLITICS SL           GLOBAL POLITICS HL           ENVIRONMENTAL SYS. & SOC. SL          

GRADING SCALE & DISTRIBUTION OF GRADE ’S CUMULATIVE AVERAGES CLASS OF   Grade 9th-11th Turkish 100 point scale # of students % of students .    HIGH HONORS . .   . .   . .   . .  HONORS . .   . .   . .   . .   . .   RECENT STUDENT DISTINCTIONS COMMUNITY SERVICE & DEVELOPMENT ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT Following the bone cancer fatality of one of their classmates, ENKA high school In July 2016 Gymnasiade for swimming in Trabzon, Turkey, one of our students initiated the IyİLİK Foundation, raising funds and awareness to build a Grade 12 students won: bone marrow analysis laboratory, which is now one of the world’s top 10 labs of 3rd Place in the world- for 4 different events its kind. In April 2017 at the ISF International Swimming Championship for High To date ENKA has had 7 bronze and 5 silver Duke of Edinburgh International Schools in Budapest, Hungary, one of our Prep students won: Award winners. 1st Place in the world- for 3 different events

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT In the Berlin Fed Cup, one of our Grade 11 students won: In summer 2017 TEAMS Competition, ENKA high school students won: 3rd Place in Europe- 16 Year Olds Division 1st Place in the International Category- representing Turkey at the finals

With her ESS Class Project, one of our high school students won: 2nd place in the world- Genius Olympiad, USA Honorable Mention- I-SWEEP Environmental Science Fair, USA UNIVERSITY MATRICULATIONS    Beginning with the first graduating class of 2008, 440 ENKA students have matriculated abroad. A total of 63 students applied to overseas universities in 2017. This number constitutes 93% of the graduating class. The matriculation for the Class of 2017 are shown in bold. *indicates the number of students matriculated this year

American University *2 (2) University of British Columbia *1 (5) Acibadem Üniversitesi 2 Arizona State University Carleton University Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi *2 (11) Babson College (8 Dalhousie University (2) Beykent Üniversitesi *1 (5) Ball State University (2) University of Guelph Bilkent Üniversitesi 4 Barnard College Humber College Boğaziçi Üniversitesi 3 Bentley University *1 (4) McGill University *5 (19) Çanakkale 18 Mart Üniversitesi 1 Berklee College of Music (2) Sheridan College Dokuzeylül Üniversitesi 1 Binghamton University (2) Simon Fraser University Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi 1

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Boston College CANADA University of Toronto *2 (15) Haceepe Üniversitesi 1 Boston University (13) Western University Haliç Üniversitesi 1 Brandeis University York University Işik Üniversitesi 5 Brown University *1 (9) İstanbul Arel Üniversitesi 1 Bryant University (2) İstanbul Aydin Üniversitesi 1 Bucknell University (2) Architectural Assoc.School of Architecture *1 (3) İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi *2 (78) University of California, Berkeley (2) Arts University Bournemouth İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi 2 University of California, Irvine University of Bath *1 (5) İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi 4 UNITED STATES University of California, Los Angeles (4) Bournemouth University İstanbul Üniversitesi 7 University of California, San Diego University of Brighton (2) Kadirhas Üniversitesi 2 Carnegie Mellon University Brunel University (3) Koç Üniversitesi (6) 38 Chapman University Camberwell College of Arts Medipol Üniversitesi *1 (1) Clark University Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts *1 Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi *1 (2) Columbia University *2 (6) Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design *1 (3) Okan Üniversitesi 3 Connecticut College *1 City University *1 (2) Özyeğin Üniversitesi *1 (26) Cornell University (2) Durham University Sabanci Üniversitesi 33 The Culinary Institute of America University of Edinburgh (2) Yeditepe Üniversitesi *1 (9) Dartmouth College *1 European School of Economics London Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi 1 Drew University (2) University of Exeter *1 Duke University (7) University of Glasgow Emerson College (2) Goldsmiths College, University of London Emory University *2 (4) Imperial College London (2) Fashion Institute of Technology University of Kent (2) Fordham University *1 (2) UNITED KINGDOM King's College London *3 (12) Fullerton College (2) Kingston University (2) Georgetown University (5) London College of Communication The George Washington University *1 (7) University of Manchester (2) Georgia Institute of Technology University of Noingham *1 (8) Harvard University (3) University of Oxford University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Oxford Brookes University paign (4) Queen Mary, University of London *1 Johns Hopkins University (5) University of Reading (3) Johnson & Wales University (3) Royal Holloway, University of London *2 (12) Lafayee CollegE School of Oriental and African Studies Lehigh University (4) University of Surrey (2) Lake Forest College University of Warwick (2) Lynn University (2) University of York *1 University of Massachuses Universityof Miami *1 (4) University of Michigan(7) Michigan State University (4) Mount Ida College Medical University –Varna, Bulgaria New York University (15) Charles University Prague, Czech Republic The New School *1 (9) Paris College of Art, France (2) Northeastern University *1 (7) SciencesPo -Menton, France Northwestern University *2 (6) Carl Benz School of Engineering, Germany Oberlin College (2) Jacobs University, Germany (3) Old Dominion University University of Debrecan, Hungary University of Pennsylvania American University of Rome, Italy Pennsylvania State University (6) Universita Bocconi, Italy *3 (4) Pepperdine University *1 (4) Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Italy Pra Institute *1 (8) IDC Herzliya Raphael Recanati, Israel Purdue University (2) Nagoya University, Japan Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Erasmus Universiteit Roerdam, Netherlands University of Rochester (3) Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Netherlands (2) Rhode Island School of Design(4) KABK –Royal Academy of Art, Netherlands *1 Rutgers University (2) Leiden University, Netherlands *1 (2) San Diego State University *1 (2) EUROPE & ASIA Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands San Francisco State University *1 University College Utrecht, Netherlands Santa Clara University *1 Amsterdam University College, Netherlands *1 (2) Santa Monica College University of Amsterdam, Netherlands*1 (2) Savannah College of Art and Design De Haagse Hogeschool, Netherlands School of the Art Inst. of Chicago (4) Cesar Ritz Colleges, Switzerland School of Visual Arts (3) Les Roches International School of Hotel Skidmore College (2) Management, Switzerland (2) University of Southern California *1 (6) Southern Methodist University St. Edward's University Stanford University (2) Suffolk University Trinity University Tus University *1 (4) Vanderbilt University (2) Vassar College University of Virginia (15) Wellesley College (2) Worcester Polytechnic Institute *1 (4) University of Washington