CEEB code 696175 Enrollment 2114192 boarding | Headmaster Koray Özsaraç Founded 1988 | |
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Motto Akıl, Vicdan, Cesaret(Reason, Conscience, Courage) Established 1988; 29 years ago (1988) Address Tepeören Mahallesi, Koç Özel Lisesi, 34959 Tuzla/İstanbul, Turkey | ||
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Koç School (Turkish: Koç Özel İlkokulu, Ortaokulu ve Lisesi) is a private coeducational school in Turkey. It was founded by Vehbi Koç, one of Turkey's wealthiest businessmen, and is currently under the umbrella of the Vehbi Koç Foundation. The school comprises a high school, which was established in 1988, and an elementary school, established ten years later, in 1998. Koç School admits its students based on their achievements on the nationwide examination for high schools in Turkey. Since 1994, the school applies the IB program.
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General information
Koç School is a high and elementary school, fully accredited by the Turkish Ministry of Education, European Council of International Schools (ECIS), International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Independent schools UK, England, Scotland, Wales & NI and international schools worldwide (ISBI) and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). It offers boarding for five or seven days a week for students of classes between 6-12 at its dorms on its campus.
History
Founded in 1988 by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, Koç School has quickly become one of Turkey's most selective and competitive university preparatory schools.
Koç School has started offering the IB Diploma Programme in 1994. With the introduction of the programme, many students started applying to overseas educational institutes with high reputation. Koç students have been accepted into universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, MIT, and University of Chicago. Up till 2016, the number of students seeking overseas education has constantly increased.
The school's Turkish university entrance success is also considerable: general student achievement is among the top when compared with other similar high schools. In fact in 2000, the top scorer of ÖSS was a Koç School graduate. In the 2006 ÖSS, 19 Koc students were in the top 1000 of over 1.500.000 attendants and many students that applied abroad were accepted to top ten universities in the US.
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Campus and facilities
Koç School is located on a 750-acre (3.0 km2) campus on the eastern outskirts of Istanbul, near Tuzla, Istanbul.
Many of the school facilities were subject to renovations after the first ten years of the school due to increased demands and population of the school.
The important facilities and buildings in the school campus are:
Academics
Koç School is a bilingual school in Turkish and English but also offers the option of a second language: French, German or Spanish. Students choose between an IB track or a non-IB track at the end of tenth grade. Koç School is also the IB coordinator in Istanbul, and prepared the IB Turkish Social Studies Curriculum to be covered in all around the world in IB Schools.
Each year, many students of the Koç School prefer to continue their education in overseas universities. The school's Overseas College Guidance Office is strong with its admission statistics. each year. At the end of each academic year, 1-2 students with a high academic achievement in each subject are awarded according to the feedbacks of teachers and departments.
Koç School is also successful in national and international high school competitions on Math and Sciences.
The school also provides an international faculty with teachers from Australia, Britain, Brazil, Canada, India, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, The Netherlands, U.S., New Zealand and Turkey teaching Science, languages, arts. Some of the current and former notable faculty include John Freely, writer and professor of Physics at Bogazici University, and Erol Köroğlu, writer and doctor of literature and cultural studies at Sabanci University.
Curriculum
In the first two years of education, a high school student usually takes the following courses: Turkish Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Arts, Military Science, Physical Education, Religion and Ethics, History, Health, Geography, Geometry, Mathematics, an elective second language course, an elective from a variety of courses like Movie Studies, Advanced Multimedia, etc.
In the last two years, Koç School provides a variety of IB and non-IB courses. Among the mandatory and elective courses provided to junior and seniors are: Art History, Biology, Business & Management, Ceramics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Computer Programming, Economics, English, Environmental Systems, French, German, Information Technology in Global Society, Knowledge of Language and Literature, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Photography, Physics, Psychology, Theory of Knowledge, Turkish Social Studies, Turkish Literature, and Visual Arts.
There are usually two examinations (or projects and/or papers to be counted as an exam grade) for each course at each semester. Exams are usually held in Common Exam Week (or for the finals Final Examination Week). Examinations are scheduled by the Dean's office and regular class schedule continues to take place with shorter amount of time for each period. After the exam results are announced several awards (with different categories: Academic Success, Effort, Improvement) are given by the teachers to students.
Extracurricular activities
It is compulsory for each student to join a student club or a sports activity offered at school. Every student has to pick one of the following activities at the beginning of each semester and has to regularly attend its meetings.
The school has over 50 clubs. Some of the available extracurricular activities and clubs are:
Koç School is also the first Turkish school to apply the International Award Association programme.
Environmental Projects are of the major activities in the school, in fact recycling project of Koc School Students won the First Prize in the International Volvo Adventure 2006 competition.
At the end of each academic year, extracurricular awards are given to students according to the feedbacks of the supervisors of clubs.