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

Online rankings of Lahore's Matric schools rarely show where their order comes from. The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore offers something a parent can check for themselves. The last section of its Class 10 result gazette, headed 'Institute Wise Pass Percentage', lists each school by board code and name with the number of candidates it applied for, the number who sat the papers, the number who passed and their grades. We read that section for Lahore, compared it with the board's 2026 headline figures, and set out below what it does and does not tell you. For wider options, SchoolNama's Lahore city page lists the campuses we hold, and separate guides cover the best schools in Lahore and O Level schools in Lahore.

A word on dates. The school-by-school figures in this guide are for the 2025 exam, the latest year for which we could open the board's own file. BISE Lahore's notifications page links its 2025 Class 10 gazette, but when we checked on 29 September 2026 it did not link the 2026 one, and a request to the board's result-data.biselahore.com address returned an 'Unauthorized' error saying that location is not publicly accessible. Copies of the 2026 gazette circulate on third-party sites, but we have not used them. So for any school on your shortlist, ask it for its own 2026 Class 10 result: how many students it entered and how many passed.

BISE Lahore's about page says its jurisdiction is now confined to four districts: Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib. We found no published key to the board's five-digit school codes, so the district reading in this guide is our own inference from the table. In the 2025 table, codes beginning 1 carry Kasur addresses, codes beginning 4 carry Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib addresses, and codes beginning 2 carry Lahore addresses: of the 1,818 entries under codes beginning 2, all but seven name Lahore in their address, and those seven either misspell it or name a Lahore neighbourhood such as Ichhra. One Lahore school sits outside that series, a government girls' school at Buchoki Majha in Raiwind tehsil listed under a Kasur code, and our Lahore counts leave it out. The Lahore codes cover the whole district, including Raiwind, Kahna, Manga Mandi and the Cantonment, not only the city. Within them, codes beginning 21 carry boys' or unstated names, and codes beginning 22 carry girls' or unstated names apart from a single boys' school, so we read those as boys' and girls' codes, counting that one school as boys'; codes beginning 23, 24 and 25 are mostly private schools, and there we go by the name each school gives itself.

Lahore also has Matric schools under a second board. We counted 80 entries with Lahore addresses at SSC level on the Federal Board's (FBISE) list of affiliated institutions. Among them are ten Army Public School and Garrison entries, 13 F.G. schools (12 in the Cantonment), 20 schools of The Citizens Foundation (TCF), two Rangers Public Schools, Cantt Public High School on Sarwar Road, Cantt Public Girls High School in R.A. Bazar, Aitchison College's Senior School, Roots International's DHA EME campus, Bahria College, Fazaia Intermediate College, four online schools and ten colleges or institutes. An FBISE SSC is a Matric qualification too, so these count as Matric schools. But no Army Public, F.G., TCF or Rangers Public school appears in BISE Lahore's 2025 table, so the figures below leave their results out. A few schools appear on both lists: DHA Senior School's boys' and girls' schools are on the FBISE list yet entered 95 and 63 candidates with BISE Lahore in 2025; Cantt Public High School on Sarwar Road entered 19; and although FBISE lists Aitchison's Senior School, two 'campus' high schools at Aitchison College entered 24 and 11 candidates with BISE Lahore. Check with each school which board will examine its Class 10 students.

The board's 2026 headline results, as reported by ProPakistani from the gazette, show 285,587 candidates applied for the Class 10 exam, 282,308 appeared and 182,186 passed, a pass rate of 64.53%. The result was announced on 6 August 2026. In 2025, according to the board's own gazette, 65.32% of 254,012 candidates passed. ProPakistani's comparison of Punjab's nine boards for 2026 put Lahore eighth, ahead only of Rawalpindi, against a combined Punjab pass rate of 68.72%, and Lahore had more candidates than any other Punjab board. In 2026 the Science Group passed 69.23% and the Humanities Group, the board's name for the non-science group, 48.78%. School-going candidates did much better than private ones: in Science, regular candidates passed at 82.5% and private candidates at 53.18%; in Humanities, 61.29% against 39.38%. Girls outperformed boys, 77.83% against 60.21% in Science and 57.02% against 32.51% in Humanities.

The 2025 gazette shows why the headline rate understates schools. That year, 112,442 private candidates, who sit without a school, appeared and 49.61% passed. Regular candidates from government institutions passed at 71% and those from private institutions at 86.03%. By our count, the 1,818 entries under Lahore codes entered 84,014 regular candidates in 2025 and passed 67,643 of them, or 80.51%. The median entry had 24 candidates. 777 entries had fewer than 20, 382 had fewer than 10, and 192 had 100 or more. With classes this small, a pass rate can jump about: 285 entries passed every candidate, yet 213 of them had fewer than 20 students and 141 fewer than 10. Just 16 entries of 50 or more candidates had a 100% pass; the biggest of them were The Punjab Girls High School near Gulshan-e-Lahore with 224, Qazi Grammar Girls High School near Qainchi Amar Sidhu with 140, The Punjab Girls High School in Johar Town with 132, Society Public Girls High School in Moghalpura with 114 and Iqra Huffaz Girls Secondary School at Shah Jamal with 109. At the other end, 11 entries passed nobody, none of them with more than three candidates.

The table below picks out Lahore schools that each entered a sizeable group in 2025, mixing government and private, boys' and girls', the old city and the outskirts. It is not a ranking, it is a year out of date, and plenty of good schools with smaller classes are not in it. The two largest entries under the Lahore codes were Unique High School's girls' and boys' branches in New Muslim Town, with 857 and 809 candidates. The largest government entry was Govt. Girls High School in Wassanpura Scheme No. 2, with 532. Among the schools in the table, pass rates ranged from 54.89% at Govt. Islamia High School on Multan Road to 100% at The Punjab Girls High School near Gulshan-e-Lahore and at DHA Senior School's girls' school.

A pass rate says as much about which students a school enters as about its teaching. Across the Lahore codes in 2025, the 343 entries named 'Govt' or 'Government' at the start entered 32,333 candidates and passed 74.16%; the other 1,475 entries entered 51,681 and passed 84.49%. Entries we read as girls' passed 83.91% of 49,656 candidates, and boys' entries 75.45% of 33,901. If a school keeps weaker students back, or sends them to the exam as private candidates, its rate will look better than that of a school that enters everyone, and the gazette gives no way to tell the two apart. So ask how many children started Class 9 at the school and how many of them took Class 10 under its code.

A BISE Lahore code does not by itself mean a large Matric programme. Several names better known for Cambridge hold BISE Lahore codes but entered small Matric classes in 2025: no Beaconhouse code entered more than 41 candidates, The City School's single Lahore code in New Muslim Town entered 3, LACAS Milestone's codes entered between 4 and 12, and Roots International's codes entered between 3 and 8. Codes carrying the Lahore Grammar name entered more, up to 81 at a girls' high school in Township. When a campus enters only a handful of Matric candidates, most of its students may be on another route, so ask. Our guide to O Levels versus Matric explains how the two routes differ.

Our own Lahore data is not yet good enough to do this sorting, and we would rather say so plainly. SchoolNama holds 452 Lahore listings; all are basic profiles no school has claimed, and 353 have no curriculum recorded. Every one of the 95 listings tagged Matric is a public institution, and the tag cannot be trusted: 22 are colleges or technical institutes, two are universities, seven are primary schools and two are middle schools. None of our 343 private or 14 trust listings carries the Matric tag, even though schools such as Divisional Public School in Model Town, Crescent Model Higher Secondary School, DHA Senior School for Boys and Convent of Jesus and Mary on Durand Road all entered Class 10 candidates with BISE Lahore in 2025. Our gender field is weak as well: it is set by matching words in a school's name and falls back to co-ed when nothing matches, so 360 listings show as co-ed, four of them with names beginning 'GGHS', which we read as Government Girls High School. Where one of our listings matches a school in the board's table, such as Govt. Islamia High School at Sheranwala Gate (58 candidates in 2025) or Govt. Central Model School in Samanabad (305), every result figure here is the board's, not ours.

The weakest evidence of all is on fees. No Lahore listing on SchoolNama has a fee record, and we left out fee figures published by aggregator sites because we could not trace them back to the schools. Ask each school to put its first-year cost in writing, covering admission, security, annual charges and the board's own fees. On the board's side, BISE Lahore's revised Class 9 registration notice for the 2026-28 session, dated 9 June 2026, set its charge at Rs 2,300 per student: Rs 1,150 enrolment fee, Rs 870 processing fee and Rs 280 sports fee. Government schools do not pay the enrolment fee but do pay the other two, and forms submitted from 23 June to 7 July carried a further Rs 600 per student. We found no Class 10 admission fee in a notice we could read, so ask the school what it will charge.

Board results are one input among several. Start with the board: an FBISE school in the Cantonment and a BISE Lahore school sit different papers on different timetables. Then the group: Science and Humanities pass rates were about 20 points apart in 2026. Many private groups in Lahore, including Unique High School, Crescent Model, Divisional Public School, The Punjab School and Dar-e-Arqam, hold separate codes for boys and girls, and only 21 of the 1,818 Lahore entries in 2025 have a name we could not read as boys' or girls'. That still does not prove a given campus is single-sex, so ask how Classes 9 and 10 are taught at the branch you visit, and whether it offers FSc or ICS afterwards. For government schools, start with the Punjab School Education Department's schools portal.

In a district that stretches from the old city's gates to Raiwind and Kahna, the daily journey deserves a test run. We have no pick-and-drop providers or tutors listed for Lahore yet, so ask each school whether it runs vans, and travel the route at school hours before deciding. When you are down to two or three schools, SchoolNama's Lahore city page and compare page show what we hold for each, but use them only as a first look: get the board, the most recent Class 10 result and the fees confirmed by the school itself.