Army Public Schools & Colleges System

Army Public Schools & Colleges System
**APSACS**
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.Brigadier (R) Ramzan [Director] 2. Brigadier. (R) Tahir Ali Syed [Regional Director X Corps]
Branches	230.
Website	apsacssectt.edu.pk

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

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]

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.