Best Matric Schools in Gujranwala (2026): Board Results, Fees & Parent Checklist

Search for the best Matric schools in Gujranwala and you mostly get lists built on reputation, copied from one site to the next. The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Gujranwala publishes something more useful. Its result gazette for the 2026 Class 10 exam, declared on 6 August 2026, ends with a table of every school that entered candidates: the board's institute code, the school's name, and how many students appeared and passed in the Science and General groups. This guide reads that table for schools under the board's Gujranwala codes, sets it beside the board's headline figures, and explains what the numbers can and cannot tell a family. SchoolNama's Gujranwala city page lists the individual campuses we hold.

Most Matric schools in Gujranwala sit BISE Gujranwala, whose jurisdiction page lists six districts: Gujranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Mandi Bahauddin, Narowal and Hafizabad. Its institute codes follow a pattern worth knowing. The board's affiliated-institutes page, filtered to boys' schools in Gujranwala district, lists 437 schools, every one with a code beginning 111. The board does not say what codes beginning 112 mean, but almost every school under one has a girls' school name, so in this guide we read 112 codes as girls' codes; a few carry names such as 'boys and girls'. Higher secondary schools have codes beginning 311 or 312. The Gujranwala codes cover far more than the city: they include Kamoke, Nowshera Virkan, Qila Didar Singh, Eminabad and many villages, and also schools in Wazirabad and Ali Pur Chatha. Dawn reported in December 2024 that Wazirabad tehsil had been upgraded to a separate district, with Ali Pur Chatha, in the restored Gujrat division, but the board's table still lists those schools under Gujranwala codes, so our counts include them.

A second board matters in the cantonment. On the Federal Board's (FBISE) affiliated list we counted nine SSC-level entries with Gujranwala Cantt addresses: two Army Public School and College entries (one on the Jinnah Campus in DOHS Phase-I), the Army Public School for International Studies on the Iqbal Campus, F.G. Public School No. 1 (Boys), F.G. Public School No. 2 (Girls), a third F.G. Public School entry, Fauji Foundation Model School in DOHS-II, Cantt Public High School's Aminpur Campus and The Noor School in D.C. Colony. Two TCF secondary campuses elsewhere in the district are also on the FBISE list. None of these appears in BISE Gujranwala's 2026 table (a Cantt Public girls' campus near the Gulab Pura check post does sit BISE Gujranwala, under code 112619), so their Class 10 results are not in the figures below. Several private schools with Cantt addresses, such as A+ School System and Asaas National School, do sit BISE Gujranwala.

Across the whole board, 245,728 candidates applied for the 2026 Class 10 exam, 242,192 appeared and 168,266 passed, a pass rate of 69.48%. That is lower than 2025's 70.58% and well below 2023's 80.77%, according to the five-year comparison printed in the gazette. ProPakistani's comparison of Punjab's nine boards put Gujranwala fourth, behind D.G. Khan at 77.86%, Faisalabad and Multan. Science Group candidates passed at 72.45% and General Group candidates at 60.97%. The gap between school-going and private candidates is large: in the Science Group, regular candidates passed at 81.22% and private candidates at 55.22%.

Toppers make headlines but say little about a whole school. The gazette shows the overall first place shared on 1,190 marks out of 1,200 by students of Future Vision Secondary School for Girls in Shaheenabad and A+ School System for Girls in Gujranwala Cantt. Third place, on 1,187, went to a student of WAPDA Town High School for Boys. Second place went outside the district, to Fauji Foundation Model School for Boys in Shakargarh, Narowal. In the General Group, government schools did well: the top girl studied at Govt. Hakim Bibi Girls High School in Gujranwala, and the second and third boys at Govt. High School Wania Wala and Govt. High School No. 1 Kamoke. We have not repeated students' names.

The institution-wise table is where comparison becomes possible. By our count, 892 entries in it carry the board's Gujranwala codes, and they between them entered 43,246 regular candidates and passed 34,900, or 80.7%. Private candidates, who sit without a school, are not in this table. The median entry had about 30 candidates. 293 entries had fewer than 20 candidates, 113 had fewer than 10, and 94 had 100 or more. Small classes make pass rates swing: 93 entries passed every candidate, but 63 of those had fewer than 20 students and 34 had fewer than 10. Only five entries with 50 or more candidates reached 100%: Asaas National School (for Girls) in the Cantt with 151, Kids House English School for Girls in Rehmat Pura with 109, Workers Welfare High School for Girls in Peoples Colony with 100, Workers Welfare School for Girls in Gulshan Colony with 64, and Muslim Hands School of Excellence at Sohdra More, Wazirabad, with 56.

The table below shows a spread of Gujranwala schools that entered a meaningful number of students in 2026: government and private, boys' and girls'. It is not a ranking, and it leaves out many good schools with smaller classes. The largest single entry under the Gujranwala codes was a government girls' school outside the city: Govt. Girls High School, Kamoke, which entered 623 candidates and passed 74.8% of them. Inside the city, Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School No. 1 entered 438.

Look at who a school enters, not only its pass rate. Across the Gujranwala codes, the 340 entries whose names begin with 'Govt' entered 22,577 candidates and passed 75.06%; the other 552 entries entered 20,669 and passed 86.86%. Codes we read as girls' passed 83.84% of 26,669 candidates, and boys' codes 75.65% of 16,577. The group matters too: regular Science candidates under these codes passed at 83.86% and General candidates at 71%. A school that holds back weaker students, or has them sit privately, will post a higher rate than one that enters its whole class. Ask how many students began Class 9 with the school and how many sat Class 10 under its code.

Affiliation is not the same as a strong Matric programme. Some schools better known for Cambridge also hold BISE Gujranwala codes but entered small Matric classes in 2026: Beaconhouse's boys' and girls' codes had 11 and 9 candidates, and The City School's codes, listed at Muslim Town, Rahwali Cantt, had 5 and 3. Our guide to O Level schools in Gujranwala covers the Cambridge side. The board's website also has a 'School Ranking' page that gives affiliated schools a score, but the page says only that it is based on 'performance and scores', without naming the exam or the method, so we have not used it here.

SchoolNama's own Gujranwala data can't do this filtering for you yet, and we would rather say so. We hold 73 Gujranwala listings, all of them basic profiles, and 54 have no curriculum recorded. All 18 listings tagged Matric are public institutions, and the tag is unreliable: six are colleges or technical institutes, and two are a primary and a middle school. Only one of our 55 private listings has a curriculum recorded, and it is O Level. Gender is also shaky: 63 listings are recorded as co-ed, including Quaid-e-Azam Divisional Public School, which appears in the board's table under two codes, one beginning 111 and one beginning 112. A few listings, such as a hospital and a mosque, are not schools at all. Where our listings do match the board's table, such as Govt. P.B. Model High School, Pakistan International Public School and Govt. Girls High School Sagheer Shaheed Park, the result figures in this guide come from the board, not from us.

Fees are where the evidence is thinnest. SchoolNama holds no fee record for any Gujranwala listing, and we have not used fee figures from aggregator sites because we could not trace them to the schools. Ask each school for a written first-year cost that includes admission, security, annual charges, and board registration and exam fees. BISE Gujranwala posts its fee notifications on its website, including a notification on revising its fee structure.

Marks matter less than several other things. Board fit comes first: a cantonment school on FBISE and a city school on BISE Gujranwala prepare students for different papers and timetables. Science or General matters too, since the two groups' pass rates differed by more than 11 points board-wide. Many Gujranwala schools, including A+ School System, WAPDA Town High School, Jadeed Dastgir, Mashraq Science and Quaid-i-Azam Divisional Public School, enter candidates under two codes, usually a boys' and a girls' branch, so check how Classes 9 and 10 are organised at the campus you visit. If your child is in Class 9 now, note that the board's Class 9 result for 2026, declared on 2 September, passed 46.66% of candidates, and failed Class 9 papers can be retaken alongside the Class 10 exam. For government schools, the Punjab School Education Department's schools portal links to its School Information System.

Commute is the last check and often the deciding one. SchoolNama does not yet list any pick-and-drop providers or tutors in Gujranwala, so ask each school about its own vans and try the journey at school time. Once you have two or three candidates, SchoolNama's Gujranwala city page and compare page show what we hold for each listing. Treat those listings as a starting point, and confirm the board, the full Class 10 result and the fees with each school.