Toktogul Secondary School (Razzakov)

Toktogul Secondary School Uzbek: Toʻqtogʻul oʻrta maktabi, Тўқтоғул ўрта мактаби
Location
Isfana Kyrgyzstan
Coordinates	39.8387°N 69.5300°E / 39.8387; 69.5300
Information
School type	Elementary, secondary, and high school
Religious affiliation(s)	None
Headmaster	Davron Hudaynazarov
Language	Uzbek

Tokrogul Secondary School ([ Toʻqtogʻul oʻrta maktabi, Тўқтоғул ўрта мактаби] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); [Средняя школа имени Токтогула] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); [Токтогул орто мектеби] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a secondary school in Isfana, Kyrgyzstan. Although the school is called a secondary school, it offers classes for grades 1 through 11. Toktogul, which was opened in 1936, is the oldest school in Isfana. The school has two buildings. The old building was completed in 1947. In 2007, a wing of the old building of Tokrogul was seriously damaged by an earthquake. A new two-storeyed building was constructed in 2009. Davron Hudaynazarov is the current principal of the school.

General Framework and Curriculum

At Toktogul Secondary School children are accepted to first grade at the age of 6 or 7, depending on individual development of each child. The eleven-year school term is split into elementary (grades 1-4), middle (grades 5-9) and senior (grades 10-11) classes. Attending a nine-year "basic" (elementary and middle) program is compulsory. Grades 10-11 are optional.

Like at many other secondary schools in Kyrgyzstan and other CIS countries, children of elementary classes are normally separated from other classes within their own floor of a school building. They are taught, ideally, by a single teacher through all four elementary grades (except for physical training and, if available, foreign languages). This is the case at Toktogul Secondary School.

Starting from the fifth grade, each academic subject is taught by a dedicated specialty teacher. The school curriculum for senior students includes subjects like mathematics, informatics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, arts, music, physical education, history, and astronomy. The medium of instruction at Toktogul Secondary School is Uzbek. In addition to Uzbek, students study three other languages: English, Kyrgyz, and Russian.

Like many other schools in Kyrgyzstan Toktogul Secondary School resorts to double shift where two streams of students (morning shift and evening shift) share the same facility. The reason for this is that school capacity is insufficient to teach all students on a normal, morning to afternoon, schedule.

The school year extends from September 1 to the end of May and is divided into four terms. Study program in the school is fixed: unlike in some Western countries, schoolchildren or their parents have no choice of subjects. Students are graded on a 5-step scale, ranging in practice from 2 ("unacceptable") to 5 ("excellent"); 1 is a rarely used sign of extreme failure. Teachers regularly subdivide these grades (i.e. 4+, 5-) in daily use, but term and year results are graded strictly 2, 3, 4 or 5.