Ortaokul evimize yakın.

A very literal breakdown is:

ortaokul = middle school
evimiz-e = to our house
yakın = near / close

So the structure is basically:

Middle school + to our house + close

Natural English adds is: The middle school is close to our house.

Ortaokul means middle school.

It is made from:

• orta = middle
• okul = school

In Turkish, many compound nouns are written as one word, and ortaokul is the normal standard spelling.

Evimize means to our house or to our home.

It breaks down like this:

• ev = house / home
• -imiz = our
• -e = to

So:

ev → house
evimiz → our house
evimize → to our house

That -e is the dative case ending, which often means to or toward.

The important point is that yakın normally goes with the dative in Turkish.
So Turkish says:

• okula yakın = close to the school
• eve yakın = close to the house
• evimize yakın = close to our house

So even though English just says close to, Turkish shows that relationship by putting the noun into the dative.

Because with yakın, Turkish normally requires the thing being approached or compared to be in the dative.

So:

• evimiz = our house
• evimize = to our house

For this sentence, evimize yakın is the correct pattern.

In Turkish, present-tense sentences with nouns or adjectives often have no separate word for is in the third person singular.

So:

• Ortaokul evimize yakın. = The middle school is close to our house.

This is completely normal Turkish. The idea of is is understood.

If you changed the tense, you would see extra marking:

• Ortaokul evimize yakındı. = The middle school was close to our house.
• Ortaokul evimize yakın olacak. = The middle school will be close to our house.

Yes. Yakın basically means near / close.

In this sentence it is used as the predicate adjective, so it works like is close in English:

• Ortaokul evimize yakın. = The middle school is close to our house.

So even though English needs is, Turkish can simply end with the adjective.

Turkish does not have a word exactly like English the.

That means ortaokul can be understood from context as:

• the middle school
• a middle school
• sometimes just middle school

In this sentence, English usually translates it as the middle school or the middle school is close to our house, but Turkish does not need an article there.

If Turkish wants to emphasize a/an, it can use bir:

• Bir ortaokul evimize yakın. = A middle school is close to our house.

Yes, but Turkish word order is also somewhat flexible.

The most neutral sentence pattern here is:

Ortaokul evimize yakın.

That puts the predicate yakın at the end, which is very natural in Turkish.

If you move things around, the emphasis can change, and some versions may sound marked or incomplete depending on context. For a learner, the safest pattern is the one you see here.

Not as the same complete sentence.

Evimize yakın ortaokul usually means the middle school near our house or a middle school near our house. That is a noun phrase, not a full sentence by itself.

So:

• Ortaokul evimize yakın. = complete sentence
• Evimize yakın ortaokul = noun phrase

If you want a full sentence with that phrase, you need more words, for example:

• Evimize yakın ortaokul çok iyi. = The middle school near our house is very good.

It can mean either house or home, depending on context.

So evimize yakın could be understood as:

• close to our house
• close to our home

Both are natural translations.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

or-ta-o-kul e-vi-mi-ze ya-kın

A few notes:

• o, a, e, i are usually pronounced clearly.
• ı in yakın is the Turkish ı, a vowel that does not exist in English. It is not the same as English ee.
• The ğ sound is not present here, so the sentence is fairly straightforward to pronounce.

If you say each syllable clearly, you will be close to the standard pronunciation.