What Should an e-Okul Photo Be? Size, KB, Who Uploads It, Enrolment

What Size Should an e-Okul Photo Be? (2026)

A pupil photo for e-Okul, the Turkish education ministry's school records system, must be 35×45 mm (3.5×4.5 cm), 133×171 pixels, JPEG and at least 20 and at most 150 KB. The ministry's e-Okul guide says: “The picture to be added must be taken in line with the pupil photo standards, 35 x 45 mm (133 x 171 pixel) in size and in Jpeg format. The file to be added can be at least 20 Kb and at most 150 Kb.” The photo must be no older than six months, because the pictures on exam entry cards are taken from this screen (MEB e-Okul guide, in Turkish).

The background is fixed too: the ministry's 2017 pupil photo standard says “the background must be white and unpatterned”. e-Okul moved to today's 133×171 pixels and 20–150 KB on 20 February 2014; smaller values from older guides still circulate online, and the value on the school's own screen is what counts.

133×171 pixels is an upload size; at 35×45 mm it comes to about 96 DPI. With a file this small the trap is the lower limit: in our own measurement white-background photos at this size came to only 15–17 KB even at the highest JPEG quality, so vesikalik.com.tr saves the file at the highest quality and lifts it above 20 KB through the JPEG comment field, without touching the image. A phone's original file, on the other hand, goes far beyond 150 KB. The settings are explained in the guide to reducing a photo to a KB limit, cropping in the cropping guide, and the print on the 35×45 mm photo page.

Who Uploads the e-Okul Photo, and How Is It Changed?

In e-Okul the photo is uploaded by the school, not by the parent. In the guide's words, “the authority to save on this screen lies with school directorates”; the photo is added under “Kurum İşlemleri > Resim İşlemleri” on the “Resim Ekle” or “Hızlı Resim Ekle” screen, and it is changed with the same authority. Some schools hand the task to class teachers: according to one school's 2023 guide, if the principal grants permission, “class teachers can update or add the photos of the pupils in their class through their own e-Okul accounts”. That is not a rule in every school.

In practice the parent's job is to pass the photo on the way the school asks, as a file or as a print. If the e-Okul photo is old, or an old picture shows on the exam entry document, tell the class teacher or the school office that you want to give a new photo; the school will say how. The ministry texts we read set no renewal schedule; the yardstick is the “no older than six months” rule. Common upload errors are in the photo upload guide.

You can prepare the file at home in four steps. First, find out whether the school wants a file or a print. Then take a single shot in window light in front of a plain white wall, holding the phone upright at eye level, mouth closed and face turned to the camera (see the phone shooting guide). Third, pick the e-Okul size and upload the shot: the AI checks size, background, head ratio, expression and light for free, shows any flaw point by point and whitens the background; the result is a file in the size e-Okul asks for (35×45 mm, 133×171 pixels, a 20–150 KB JPEG). Finally, send the file to the teacher or the school office the way the school asked; it stays on the order page in your account. The school does the upload; we prepare the file.

Do You Need an ID Photo for School Registration in Türkiye?

Under the regulations, no. Under Article 11 of the Regulation on Pre-School Education and Primary Education Institutions, registration “is done through the e-Okul system on the basis of the residential address in the national address database”; the article does not mention a photo. For high school, Article 21 of the Secondary Education Institutions Regulation (in Turkish) is even clearer: “no other document is requested from pupils for registration”. The ministry's 2026-2027 e-registration rules of 3 August 2026 do not mention a photo either. The same article bases the registration of foreign national children on their identity document and address data.

A school may still ask for a photo; the reason is not registration but the pupil picture in e-Okul, and that is the school's own matter, not a requirement of the regulations. If prints are wanted, the count is in the guide to how many ID photos you need. University registration is a separate topic: ÖSYM's guide mentions 4.5×6 cm prints if the university asks, and the e-registration on e-Devlet has no photo step; details are on the student ID and university registration photo page.

How Is the Photo Used for the LGS, the Open High School and KYK?

For the LGS high school entrance exam, neither the pupil nor the parent uploads a photo. The LGS 2026 guide (in Turkish) lists among the school directorate's duties “updating the photo that will appear on the pupil's exam entry document”. The photo on it is the e-Okul photo. A printed photo is asked only from pupils abroad who are not registered in e-Okul: “one ID photo (taken in the last 6 months)”. For ÖSYM exams see the exam photo guide; when the 2027 guide comes out, check the same articles.

The Open High School (Açık Öğretim Lisesi) registration guide for the first term of 2026-2027 says “one biometric photo is required”; the public education centre scans the documents into the system the same day, and a student without a photo in the system goes to the centre to have it uploaded. The guide gives no size in millimetres; NVİ describes a biometric photo as 50×60 mm on a plain white background, so if you are unsure, ask the centre.

A KYK state dormitory application asks for no photo: you apply on e-Devlet, and according to KYK's notice of 8 September 2026, “registration is completed by paying the first registration fee and approving the commitment on e-Devlet”. If your result document lists an extra document, you hand it in to the dormitory directorate.

Teachers: How Do You Change the MEBBİS and MEB Staff ID Card Photo?

A teacher's photo is kept in MEBBİS, the ministry's staff system, not in e-Okul: in the ministry's description, the picture operations module “is the module where all staff working in institutions attached to the ministry have their picture uploaded to or updated in MEBBİS”. The institution does the upload; according to the Mengen district education directorate's notice of 8 January 2026, staff “should update their photo through the school office or the district education directorate”. A teacher who wants a new photo gives the file to the school office.

The card is printed with this photo: the İspir district education directorate's 2021 notice says “the photo uploaded here is used when printing the ID card”, and the Mengen notice adds that the registered photo “must be biometric, up to date (taken within the last 6 months) and on a white background”. We found no MEBBİS pixel size published at ministry level; district notices give the same 133×171 pixels and over 20 KB as e-Okul, and if the screen shows another value, that value counts. General rules for institutional cards are on the staff ID card photo page.

Do Diplomas and Pupil ID Documents Carry a Photo?

A Turkish high school diploma does not: under Article 69 of the Secondary Education Institutions Regulation the diploma is issued from the e-Okul or e-Mesem records, and the ministry's high school diploma has no photo field, so you do not need an ID photo for it.

Universities have no single rule; Article 43/a of Higher Education Law No. 2547 leaves diploma rules to each university's own regulation. For example, Arel University's directive of September 2026 says “no photo is attached to diplomas, but … a photo is attached to the diploma register”; if a photo is needed, the student affairs office of the university you graduate from tells you the size.

In high school a photo pupil ID document is at the school's discretion: under Article 74 of the same regulation, the school directorate “may issue pupils a photo pupil identity document containing their civil registry and school details”, and no size is given; the school that issues it says what form the photo takes.