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In 1912, difficult times began to be experienced in Thessaloniki due to the Balkan War. Muslim Turkish people of the city; He had to leave Thessaloniki and migrate to the east, mainly to Istanbul and Izmir, within the war, pressures and the turmoil of those years. After the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, the last part of the School of Progress in Thessaloniki, the Mansions, was liquidated and closed down like other Turkish properties. Thus, the nearly 55-year history of the school in Thessaloniki came to an end. But four years before the last part of the school in Thessaloniki was closed, another school with the spirit of Progress had already opened in Istanbul. A group of young people who were brought up in Thessaloniki Terakki School and immigrated to Istanbul during the Balkan War years established a school under the name ŞİŞLİ LİSAN MEKTEBİ on April 5, 1919 in order to continue the tradition of the home of wisdom they came from and to create the same tradition for younger generations. Şişli Language School, which opened its doors in Mahmut Celalettin Mansion on September 3, 1919, continued education in Nuri Pasha Mansion, which was rented in Pangaltı, from September 1, 1920, when this wooden mansion burned down on the evening of June 24, 1920.

The school changed its name as ŞİŞLİ TERAKKİ MEKTEBİ in 1921. As in its founding years, this school was managed by a committee of founding and protective members called Encümen.

Şişli Terakki School developed as a fully organized, boarding, mixed high school by renting mansions suitable for school service between Nişantaşı and Pangaltı until it gained its own buildings in 1935.

Şişli Terakki School served in the building of Ferit Paşazade Mehmet Bedri Bey and his mother in 1922, in the “Şerif Pasha and Münire Sultan Mansions” in 1924, in the Halil Rıfat Pasha Mansion in 1927, and in the Chief Mabeyinci Mansion in Nişantaşı in 1928.

The Chief Mabeyinci Mansion was purchased from Emlak ve Eytam Bank in 1935. The mansion was demolished in 1949 and the construction of new and modern school facilities began. The construction of the facilities, which consists of Teşvikiye Street on the front, Akkavak Street on the back, and a large courtyard in the middle, was completed in 1962. In 1969, two floors were added to the front facade.

Şişli Terakki School was transferred to a limited company with the same name on 17 March 1934. This was a formal change because the partners of the company had signed an undertaking that they would not ask for any profit shares in accordance with the spirit and principles of Progress.

In 1963, the company was transformed into a facility with the legal expression of the foundation concept at that time, and with the law no. 903 that came into force in 1967, the TERAKKİ FACILITY turned into the TERAKKİ FOUNDATION and the school began to be managed by this foundation. The founding members of the foundation Abdurrahman Malta, Ahmet Elberger, Akif Akev, Fahri Refiğ, İbrahim Telci, Necdet Üçer, Nuri Türen, Osman Üçer, Reşat Atabek, Yusuf Kapanci, Ata Refiğ, Rifat Edin, Fikret Güvenç, Mehmet İnal, Memduh Paker, Nazmi Eren , Vedat Uras, Ecvet Gürses, Neş'e Deriş.

The first step towards the Levent campus, which constitutes the current modern facilities of the school, was taken with the 25,800 square meter land purchased in 1966. The construction of the primary school building in Levent started in 1973 and the first module of the building was completed in 1975 and the second module was opened for education in 1983. The foundation of Levent facilities, where all units of Terakki Foundation Schools will be located, was laid on 14 July 1991.

The principle in the establishment of Levent education facilities is applied education to train the productive manpower needed by a country that has now turned into an information society and industrialized; integration with social, cultural and sportive education. For this reason, the increasing number of students in Levent education facilities; All modern facilities, including private classrooms, laboratories, libraries, meeting and conference rooms, dining halls, buffets, data processing center, cultural centers, art gallery and sports facilities, are offered with the facilities provided by the developing technology.

Terakki Foundation Schools has been serving as a kindergarten, primary school and high school in its modern facilities in Levent, one of the most beautiful districts of Istanbul, since the 1994-1995 academic year. In its new campus opened in Tuzla/Tepeören since the 2014-2015 academic year; started to serve at the kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and high school levels.

Another important point about Terakki Foundation Schools is that it has not been a commercial enterprise or business since its establishment. “The School of Progress lives for charity as well as for charity.” principle of "progress" in line with its founding purposes, "To be progressive is to be fully prepared for life." It has turned into an education concept that carries the expression of

The history and development of Terakki Foundation Schools is the clearest proof that Terakki Foundation Schools are a large and well-established institution in Turkish National Education.