Özel Erenköy Işık ve Fen Lisesi

Feyziye Mektepleri Vakfı Işık School was founded in Thessalonica in 1885 when, led by Tevfik Efendi, several prominent Turkish families set about establishing a modern Turkish school for their children. The school, named "Feyz-i Sıbyan", initially housed fifty students in four classrooms.

It quickly grew in stature and popularity, and soon a middle school and high school were added. By the beginning of the new century the school, by this time known as 'Feyziye', was welcoming children and young people from kindergarten to high school, and functioning in modern well-equipped buildings. In a short while, graduates of Feyziye began assuming prominent roles in the city, providing it with mayors, engineers, doctors and noted businessmen. These years marked the heyday of Feyziye in Thessalonica and were to last until the Balkan Wars. Many Feyziye administrators moved to Istanbul after the post-war Greek invasion, and continued to oversee the school in Thessalonica from Istanbul. The Balkan Wars were followed by the First World War, and a new Feyziye School was opened in Beyazıt in Istanbul under the administration of the famous educator, Nakiye Elgün. Just as with the parent school in Thessalonica, Feyziye in Istanbul set out to provide education in a modern context. By 1923, all students in Thessalonica were transferred to the school in the motherland and the school in Thessalonica closed.

FMV Işık Schools has always prided itself on being pioneering and innovative. FMV Işık Schools was the first to start teaching modern foreign languages from the preparatory year; the first to remove Arabic and Persian subjects and add courses such as Philosophy, Sociology, Logic and Trade; the first to include a kindergarten class and adopt co-education schooling. In recent years, it was one of the first schools to bring the Socrates-Comenius programs to Turkey.Illuminating the past and the future through education.