19 Mayıs Anadolu Lisesi

19 Mayıs Anatolian High School was established in 1968 as a primary school. The school has been turned into a high school in 2003 because of the changes and needs in the education system. There are 604 enrolled pupils in our school between the ages of 14-18. Many of them come from nearby neighborhoods, as an address-based placement system has been implemented since 2017. Our school has four grades starting from 9th grade. The senior class is 12th grade, and they study for the university entrance exam. We have 40 teachers, one principal, and two deputy principals.

Our school offers its pupils a wide variety of courses such as English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Literature, etc. We have separate departments focusing on specific fields such as language or science. The teachers at our school follow opportunities for their professional development and this is reflected in the percentage of admission to higher education. 67% of the pupils graduating from our school entered higher education institutions last year. Our school focuses on the close relationship between scientific and humane knowledge. As a result, we aim to provide our pupils with all kinds of tools to tackle the challenges of the modern world with an international perspective.

Our school’s strategic plan encourages the school staff to share new perspectives with European partners. Being active in national and international projects is one of our school’s missions. In this context, a national project supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) will also be carried out in 2020. In addition, our school, which has past Comenius experience, implements an Erasmus+ project in 2019 to eradicate cultural stereotypes. Our school has also tried to engage in environmental studies. Within the scope of the “White Flag” project, which was initiated by the Ministry of National Education to encourage formal and non-formal education institutions in cleaning and hygiene and to improve school health, our school has been inspected and has obtained the white flag, which is the symbol of the clean school. In addition to being a clean school, with the help of this project, we want to fully implement environmentalist approaches in our lives.