Sisli Anadolu High School

Şişli Anadolu High School was founded in 1972. It is situated in Sisli, one of the most modern and urbanized parts of Istanbul. Şişli Anadolu High School has 40 teachers and 556 students, aged between 14-18. The curriculum includes subjects on hard sciences, social sciences, language and literature, sports and a number of elective courses. Students have to attend the school for four years, from grade 9 to 12. After they graduate they take an exam to be accepted to a university. The students learn English and German as foreign languages. Our school has a modern and rich library, a computer room, physics, chemistry, and biology labs. It also has a music hall, art room, and a conference hall. For sports activities, our students have a large garden and indoor gym. A school day starts at 8:30 am. and ends at 3.30 pm. The students are accepted to our school after passing a highly competitive national exam which they take at the end of grade 8. Our students are among the highest seventh percentile in this exam. We organize social activities like theater both in Turkish and English, exhibitions, sports tournaments, art competitions, excursions, poem recitals, ceremonies for national days. The topics of the activities are highly varied including global warming, STEM, women’s rights, stray animals, etc. We also prepare monthly magazines, both in Turkish and English.