Since its beginnings in 1996 with just over 200 students, the first ENKA School in Istanbul has moved to the main campus within the Sadi Gülçelik Sports Complex and rapidly expanded.

The school offers extracurricular activities such as chess, robotics, dance, performing arts, and outdoor pursuits such as orienteering and camping (part of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award).

Students of the school share the training grounds with ENKA Sports Club for use in their physical education classes.

In 1994, with the support of Sinan Tara, Vice-Chairman of Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., encouraged by activist and businessman Ibrahim Betil, the school was founded in 1996 in the cultural capital of the country as a private nonprofit center of educational excellence to provide an inspirational model for schools both within Turkey and throughout the international educational community.

Since opening in September 1996, with just over 200 students, ENKA Schools rapidly expanded its main campus on the Sadi Gülçelik Sports Site in Istinye.

Board Chair and Founder's Representative, Alparslan Tansuğ has a BS degree from the department of Business Administration of Middle East Technical University.

All successful 2018 academic scholarship candidates scored in the top 1.3% for the nation in Turkey's High School Entrance Exam.