Boarding
Eight houses. One family. Six years of school.
Every boy at APS belongs to a house from his first day to his last — with its own dormitories, dining hall, prep rooms, and a resident House Master who knows every boy by name.
The Boarding Houses
The House System
Eight boarding houses, each its own community
APS is organised — as it has been from the start — around eight boarding houses. Each carries the name of a figure the school still asks its students to measure themselves against: poets and statesmen, founders and reformers.
A boy joins his house on the day he enters the school, and stays in it until the day he leaves. His house is where he sleeps, eats, does his prep, holds his responsibilities, and competes for cups.
Boarding Life
The rhythm of the boarding day
Pastoral
House Masters
Each of the eight houses has a House Master who lives on campus. He is responsible for the welfare, discipline, and day-to-day life of the boys in his house.
Dining
House dining halls
Meals are taken in the house — three times a day, with the House Master and the senior prefects at the head table. It is where a house sits down as a house.
Daily Routine
Prep, games, and lights‑out
The day runs from morning assembly through classes, compulsory games in the afternoon, tea, evening prep in house, dinner, and lights-out on a fixed schedule.
Prefects
Boys' leadership within the house
Senior boys in every house hold real responsibility for the boys below them — the first place a boy is asked to lead people rather than just take part in a team.
Inter‑House
House competitions
Cricket, hockey, football, athletics, debate, music, drama, general knowledge — every side of school life is contested house against house.
Rehman House
Day scholars
Boys from Abbottabad who do not board are members of Rehman House — named for the school's founding Principal M.A. Rehman — and take part in inter-house life on equal terms.
The Eight Houses
Meet each house
Each house named for a figure the school still asks its students to measure themselves against.
House 01
Iqbal House
Named for the poet‑philosopher Allama Iqbal.
House 02
Jinnah House
Named for Quaid‑e‑Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
House 03
Liaquat House
Named for Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister.
House 04
Sir Syed House
Named for the educationist Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
House 05
Nishtar House
Named for Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, statesman.
House 06
Rehman House
Home to day scholars, named for founding Principal M.A. Rehman.
House 07
Sardar Bahadur House
Named for the school's founder, Sardar Bahadur Khan.
House 08
Sultan Tipu House
Named for Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore.