Abbottabad Public School

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Abbottabad Public School
Pashto: ایبٹ آباد پبلک سکول‎ Urdu: ایبٹ آباد پبلک سکول‎
Motto	"Character is Destiny"
Established	1961
Type	Semi-Government
Academic staff	Science
Students	500 >Over 150 students
Location	Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,  Pakistan
Campus	7
Colors	Red and Blue
Nickname	aps
Website	www.aps.edu.pk

Abbottabad Public School (APS), formerly Railway Public School and Abbottabad Public School and College, is a public, all boys, boarding school for 7th to 12th grade students, located in Abbottabad, Pakistan.^[1] APS follows the philosophy of the British boarding schools where academic rigour is balanced with a disciplined boarding life with activities ranging from intramural sports to debating and cultural events.

Contents 1 History 2 Boarding houses 3 Student life 3.1 Facilities 3.2 Common rooms 4 Sports 5 Notable alumni 6 References

History

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In 1957, Pakistan Railways opened up a school outside Abbottabad on land donated by Sardar Bahadur Khan^{[citation needed]}, brother of the dictator and self-appointed Field Marshal Ayub Khan who later became the President of Pakistan. The school was called Railway Public School. After two years it was closed and then after a gap of one year, in April 1961, the school was renamed as Abbottabad Public School.
In 1986, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the then President, renamed the institution as Abbottabad Public School and College. Later on, the school Board of Governors, in its meeting on July 20, 2002, deleted the words “and College” and give the institution its original name Abbottabad Public School. It is popularly known as APS and its alumni as Abbottonians. The founding Principal was M. A. Rahman.
The main campus is 10 km outside Abbottabad on the road (Mansehra Road) that eventually becomes Karakoram Highway. It covers an area of about 55 acres (220,000 m²). The school is surrounded by deep natural crevices in almost a U-shape. The only non-crevice side faces a high mountain. The Karakoram Highway passes between school and the mountain.

Boarding houses

APS has seven main boarding houses in which all boarders reside. Up to a hundred students can live in each of these houses, in different room capacity dormitories. Each of these houses has a House Master, a House Tutor and several student Prefects. The houses are:

• Iqbal House
• Jinnah House
• Liaquat House
• Sir Syed House
• Nishtar House
• Rehman House
• Sardar Bahadur House
• Sultan Tipu House

The day-scholar house is Rehman House, named after Mr M. A. Rehman, the first principal of APS.

Student life

Facilities

Facilities include a mosque, one main dining hall and a cafeteria, grocery store, general store, book store, barber shop, cobbler, washerman pit, and fruit shop.

Common rooms

All the houses have a recreation rooms, called a “common-room”, with television, DVD, table tennis, carom, chess, draughts and Scrabble.

Sports

There is one football field, two hockey fields, one cricket field, four basketball courts, one tennis court, one volley ball court and an outdoor swimming pool. Table tennis, chess, Carom board, etc. are included in indoor games.
Events like Gymnastics, Athletics Olympiad, etc. are held annually. Inter-House Sports and Inter-College Sports fixture, etc. are also held against Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Cadet College Kohat, Lawrence College Ghora Gali, Rashtriya Indian Military College, Uttaranchal (India), etc