Army Public Schools & Colleges System

Army Public Schools & Colleges System (APSACS) is a school system operated by the Pakistani Army with over 230 branches. APSAC System operates in 18 regions across Pakistan, with supervision by 18 regional directors.^[1] They are sub-divided into 18 regions.^[2] APSACS Secretariat serves as central unifying body, which controls technical aspects of the system. It is one of the largest educational systems of Pakistan

Army Public Schools & Colleges System APSACS
Location
Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Northern Areas, Gilgit
Information
School type	Army School; semi-private, preparatory
Motto	"I shall rise and shine!"
Opened	1975
School board	FBISE, CIE and Edexcel.
Teaching staff	18,462
Years offered	3-4 to 18-19
Gender	Mixed with separate sections for males and females in most schools.
Number of students	301,855
Average class size	30
Education system	SSC, HSSC and GCE
Classes offered	O and AS/A level, Matriculation, Intermediate
Language	English-medium education
Schedule	About 6 hours (7.30 am to 1.30 pm) in summer and (8.00 am to 2.00 pm) in winter
Houses	Faith   Unity   Discipline   Tolerance
Alumni	Apsacian
Directors APSACS	1 Brig. Ramzan [Director] 2. Brig. Tahir Ali Syed [Regional Director X Corps]
Branches	230.
Website	apsacssectt.edu.pk

History

Army Public School was founded by Pakistan Army to provide quality education to the children of Pakistan Army personnel and civilians.^[3] The schools are well-equipped with labs, at par with any American suburban school.^[3] The students can opt for O Levels examination system, a British qualification, or a local qualification.^[3] There is also an insolved mystery regarding an infamous 10143 in the Saddar, Karachi branch.

Disaster

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on one of the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar . Several students were killed and injured in the incident. The incident is popularly known as 2014 Peshawar school massacre.

List of regions

• Joint Staff (JS) region: 1 school
• Rawalpindi I (QMG) region: 3 schools
• Rawalpindi II (E in C) region: 6 schools
• Rawalpindi III (X Corps) region: 40 (estimate) schools (largest region) | Regional Director is Brigadier (R) Tahir Ali Syed SI (Military)
• Mangla region: 5 schools
• Multan region: 7 schools
• Lahore region:15 schools
• Karachi region: 19 schools
• Peshawar region: 19 schools
• Quetta region:14 schools
• Gujranwala region: 15 schools
• Bahawalpur region: 10 schools
• Rawalpindi IV (AAD) region:13 schools
• Rawalpindi V (ISI) region: 6 schools
• Rawalpindi VI (GHQ) region: 7 schools
• Nowshera/Attock region: 7 schools
• Abbottabad region: 3 schools
• Cherat region: 6 schools

Notable alumni

• Umera Ahmed: author and former teacher at APSAC
• Saeed Rashid: writer, teacher and historian, former principal at APSACS branches.
• Marium Mukhtiar: Marium Mukhtiar was a Pakistani fighter pilot. She died flying a Pakistan Air Force FT-7PG aircraft that crashed near Kundian in Mianwali District, northwestern Punjab, Pakistan on 24 November 2015. She was the first female Pakistani fighter pilot to die in the line of duty. ^[4]

Faculty

• Umera Ahmed - a former teacher at Army Public College, Sialkot's Cambridge wing, known for her critically acclaimed works, including Pir-e-Kamil, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Shehr-e-Zaat, Zindagi Gulzar Hai
• Tahira Qazi - Principal of APS&C for Boys Peshawar from 2006 to 2014, and associated with APSACS since 1994, she was killed along with 140+ others by the Taliban while rescuing her school children, in the Peshawar School Attack, in 2014 on 16 December.^[5][6]
• Saeed Rashid PP - writer, teacher and historian, was the Principal of Army Public School Jhelum and Mangla Cantt from 1990 to 1994.

See also

• 2014 Peshawar school attack
• Army Burn Hall College
• Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education