Best Matric Schools in Sargodha (2026): Board-Wide Results, Board Fees & Parent Checklist

Ask around Sargodha for the best Matric school and you will hear a handful of familiar names, usually with no figures attached. This guide takes a different route. It sets out what the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Sargodha has itself published about the 2026 Class 10 exam, which schools appear on the board's own list of institute codes, which Sargodha schools sit the Federal Board instead, and what the board charges. It also says plainly what we could not find. For the wider picture of schools in the city, including the Cambridge side, see our guide to the best schools in Sargodha and the SchoolNama Sargodha city page.

Start with the gap. The most useful record for comparing schools would be a school-by-school table of Class 10 candidates and passes. When we checked BISE Sargodha's website on 29 September 2026, its press notes gave the 2026 headline figures, but we found no result gazette or institution-wise table for the Class 10 exam of 2026 or 2025 on the board's own site. ProPakistani's report links to a copy of the 2026 gazette in a Google Drive folder; because that copy is not published on the board's website, we have not used it for any school's figures. So this guide contains no pass rates for individual schools. Any school on your shortlist can tell you how many students it entered for Class 10 in 2026 and how many passed; ask for those two numbers in writing.

BISE Sargodha covers four districts, according to its history page: Sargodha, Khushab, Mianwali and Bhakkar. Its 'Institute Codes' page lists affiliated institutions by six-digit code and name, 1,232 entries once we set aside seven that are plainly test rows, but it has no district column. We therefore matched names ourselves: 576 entries name Sargodha or a town in Sargodha district, such as Bhalwal, Kot Momin, Sillanwali, Shahpur, Sahiwal or Bhera, and do not name another district. That is a floor, not a full count, because some names give only a chak number. We found no key to the codes on the board's site. Reading from the names, codes beginning 1 or 3 belong to schools and higher secondary schools, and those beginning 2 almost all to colleges, so our reading gives 518 school entries for Sargodha district. Of those, 322 names begin 'Govt' or 'Government'. The names alone suggest many single-sex schools: 261 carry a girls' or women's name, 67 a boys' name, and 190 say neither.

The list is useful for one simple check: whether a school holds a BISE Sargodha code at all, and whether its boys' and girls' sections hold separate codes. Many private groups in the city do. Beaconhouse, Sanai School System, Islamic Altavista, Progressive Public School and The Educators each appear with separate boys' and girls' entries, and Fauji Foundation Model School has a separate girls' entry. Divisional Public School and College holds a school code and a college code. The list also includes two government secondary schools in Sargodha for children with hearing impairments. The table below picks out a spread of names from both boards' lists. It is not a ranking and it contains no results.

A second board matters too. The Federal Board (FBISE) publishes its own affiliated list, and on it we counted 28 SSC-level entries with Sargodha district addresses. They include three Army Public School listings (the Sargodha Cantt school and college, Azadi Army Public School and College, and the school at Hilal Garrison, Kirana), six F.G. schools, among them F.G. Public School and College at Mela Mandi and F.G. Public School No. 1 (Boys) at Tariqabad, PAF College Sargodha, Fazaia Model Inter College and Air Base Inter College at Mushaf, three TCF girls' high schools in Bhalwal and Shahpur, and 13 other schools, four of them with Sargodha Cantt addresses. An FBISE SSC certificate is every bit a Matric, so these count as Matric schools, but the BISE Sargodha figures below do not include them. Some names sit on both lists: TCF's girls' schools at Shahpur City and Chak No. 8/ML, Bhalwal, appear under both boards, and so does a Sanai school at 104-A Satellite Town, listed as Sanai School System Girls by BISE Sargodha and as The Sanai School by FBISE. PAF College Sargodha is on the FBISE list, while a separate PAF Public School, Sargodha holds a BISE code. Before you commit, confirm with the school which of the two boards its Class 10 candidates take.

Now the board's headline results. BISE Sargodha announced the Class 10 (SSC Part II) 1st Annual 2026 result on 6 August 2026. According to its press note No. 232, 100,611 candidates appeared and 68,637 passed, a pass rate of 68.22%. That is down from 73.81% in 2025, when 93,587 appeared, according to the board's press note for that year. ProPakistani, reporting the gazette, put the number who applied at 101,818 and Sargodha fifth of Punjab's nine boards, just below the combined Punjab rate of 68.72%.

The board's own split shows how much depends on who is sitting. Candidates entered by a school (regular) passed at 73.50%, against 52.06% for those who entered on their own (private). Girls passed at 75.04% and boys at 61.60%. All four groups did worse than in 2025, by roughly five to six points each. ProPakistani's report of the gazette adds a subject and district split. In the Science Group, 69.87% of 82,714 candidates passed, and in the Humanities Group 60.41% of 17,733. The gap between girls and boys was widest in Humanities, at 65.53% against 44.23%. Sargodha district did best of the board's four districts, with 32,829 of 46,555 candidates passing, or 70.52%. That district figure counts private candidates as well as school-going ones.

Those numbers describe the board and the district, not any one school, and a school's own pass rate needs the same care. A class of 12 that passes every student is not the same achievement as a class of 300 that passes nine in ten. A school that holds weaker pupils back, or steers them into sitting privately, can show a better percentage than a school that puts every pupil forward. So when a pass rate is quoted, ask three things: how many children were in the Class 9 intake, how many of them took Class 10 under the school's own code, and how many passed in Science and in Humanities.

Our own Sargodha data is thin, and it is better to be upfront about that. SchoolNama has 12 Sargodha listings, in Civil Lines and Satellite Town, all basic profiles that no school has claimed: nine private, two public and one trust. Nine have no curriculum recorded. Only two carry a Matric tag, Central Model School NST and the Govt College of Technology, a college of technology, so the tag is no guide to who teaches Class 10. Gender on our listings comes from keywords in the name; where a name has no such word, the listing defaults to co-ed, so ten listings show as co-ed. That includes our Progressive Public School listing, although the board's list has a Progressive Public School (Boys) and a separate Progressive Public Girls School, and our Fauji Foundation School listing, although the board lists a separate Fauji Foundation Model School Girls. We hold no fee records, no parent reviews, and no pick-and-drop or tutor listings for Sargodha.

Fees are where the evidence runs out. We have not quoted any school's fees, because we found none we could trace to a school, and SchoolNama holds no Sargodha fee record. Get the full first-year bill from each school on paper. The board's own charges are public. Its notification No. 497 ASF of 30 June 2026 raised them from 1 July 2026. For a regular student at a private affiliated school, the SSC registration fee rose from Rs 1,100 to Rs 1,500 and the SSC admission fee from Rs 800 to Rs 900 for Science or Rs 750 to Rs 850 for Arts. The processing fee rose from Rs 630 to Rs 1,000. The notification records that the government has waived the registration and admission fees for regular students of government schools at SSC level.

Marks are one factor among several. Board fit comes first: FBISE and BISE Sargodha set their own papers and run their own exam calendars, so a Cantt school and a city school may not be preparing children for the same exam. The group matters too: the Science and Humanities pass rates were more than nine points apart in 2026. Check whether boys and girls are taught at separate campuses for Classes 9 and 10, and which campus holds the board code. Look at Class 9 as well. The Express Tribune reported that only 42.61% of candidates passed BISE Sargodha's Class 9 exam in 2026, so ask how a school supports students who fail a Class 9 paper. The board's 2nd Annual exam covers both Class 9 and Class 10 papers, and it has published the date sheet for the 2026 sitting. Parents looking at government schools can start with the official schools portal run by Punjab's School Education Department.

Then there is the daily journey. We have no Sargodha pick-and-drop or tutor listings at present, so find out from each school whether it offers transport, and make the trip at school hours, particularly when comparing a school in Bhalwal, Kot Momin or Sillanwali with one in the city. With a shortlist of two or three, you can use the Sargodha city page, the Civil Lines and Satellite Town area pages and the compare page to see the few details we hold. They are basic profiles, so check the board, the 2026 Class 10 figures and the fees directly with each school.