Best Schools in Bahria Town Rawalpindi? A 2026 Parent's Map of Campuses, Filed Fees, Boards and Transport

This guide does not crown one Bahria Town school. What it does instead is narrower and more useful: it lists the campuses that an official page places inside the town, says which exam each one prepares for, shows the fee figures each one has lodged with a regulator, and flags where transport is mentioned.

Start with the address problem, because it confuses almost every family moving here. Bahria Town's own website calls its schools "Bahria Town, Rawalpindi", and its Rawalpindi head office sits in the Phase 8 business district. Yet the Capital Development Authority's housing-scheme records put five Bahria Town entries in Islamabad's Zone 5: Phase II, III, V and VI (2,501 kanal), Phase III-E and IV (2,099 kanal), Phase VII (879.53 kanal), Phase VII-E (711 kanal) and Bahria Garden City (3,232.4 kanal). Phase I and Phase 8 do not appear on the CDA list we opened. Islamabad's private-school regulator, PEIRA, registers a school at "Bahria Town, Phase-8, Islamabad." and that school's own website uses both labels: its contact page says "Bahria Town Phase 8 Rawalpindi" while its page headers say "Phase-8 Islamabad". We could not find an official map drawing the boundary street by street, so treat any claim that a given lane is in Rawalpindi or in Islamabad as unsettled unless a government record says so.

SchoolNama's listings reflect the same split. On 10 November 2026 a script found 138 campus records across the seven Bahria area tags for Rawalpindi and Islamabad: 28 filed under Rawalpindi (22 at /rawalpindi/bahria-town-rawalpindi and 6 at /rawalpindi/bahria-town-phase-8-rawalpindi) and 110 filed under Islamabad's five Bahria phase pages. Almost all came from automated map and directory imports, and many are misplaced: the tag at /rawalpindi/bahria-town-rawalpindi holds APS DHA 1, two Roots School DHA Phase 1 entries, a guitar shop, a ladies' gym and a karate club. Five of the campuses named below are filed at /islamabad/bahria-town-phase-1-3 even though their registered addresses name Phase II, Phase VII, Safari Villas or Phase 8, and a second, map-imported Bahria Town International Academy record sits at /rawalpindi/bahria-town-rawalpindi.

Group one is the federal board route. The admission page on Dr. A. Q. Khan School & College's website says its "secondary education (SSC and HSSC) is affiliated with the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE)", with a "Cambridge/Oxford University-outlined curriculum for primary and middle schools" before that. Its introduction says it started on 1 September 2009 and is co-educational "at all levels from pre-school to HSSC"; the admission page adds that selection is by a written test followed by a series of interviews. A notice dated 4 August 2026 on its homepage said admissions were open "from PG to XII on limited seats". Bahria Town's education page lists Dr. A.Q Khan College of Science & Technology at "Phase-8 and Safari Villa-1", and its profile speaks of "two purpose-built campuses"; PEIRA registers a Safari Villas-1 campus under its own EMIS number, and its filing adds IGCSE rows beside Grades IX to XII. That admission page carries the College of Science and Technology's name and Phase-8 in its header but does not mention Safari Villas, so ask which board the Safari Villas-1 campus uses for Grades IX to XII.

In group two, each school's filing or profile points to O Level, IGCSE or A Level classes. Bahria Town's education page places ACE International Academy in Phase-2, and its ACE profile says the school runs "from playgroup till the 12th year of education" and that its curricula follow "the same guidelines as the Cambridge International Examination System". The developer lists Bahria Town International Academy at "Phase-8 and Safari Villa-1" and again at Safari Villas-2; PEIRA's record puts it at Safari Villas-II, Phase-VII. Here the sources pull apart: Bahria's page describes the academy as "playgroup to primary level", while its 2025-26 PEIRA filing includes Grades IX and X and an O Level row. Westminster International School appears in PEIRA at 147 Wallayt Complex, Phase-7, at the O/A Level tier, with IGCSE and A Level rows; we did not find a school-run website that confirmed this campus, so its details rest on the register alone.

Group three is the IB route for younger children. On its Bahria Chapter page, the school network itself describes Primary Years Programme teaching there and labels the chapter "a candidate school" which "is pursuing authorization as an IB world school". The regulator's register names it "The City School (IB Scheme)", with an address of Plot No. 1160-A, Road C, Phase VII, at the primary tier, with class rows from Playgroup to Grade V only, so ask where your child would go after Grade V.

Two more campuses appear in official records. The Revival School is registered with PEIRA at Garden City Road, Phase-7, at the middle-school tier, and Bahria Town's Phase 8 page lists a Roots Millennium School among that phase's amenities. Neither has an official page we could open that names an exam route, so both are left out of the first table, though The Revival School's filing appears in the fee table. SchoolNama files Beaconhouse's Potohar campus under a Bahria tag, but the branch page Beaconhouse runs gives Khasra # 2846, Model Town Humak, Swan Camp, Main GT Road, Islamabad, without naming Bahria Town; it lists Early Years, Primary Years, Middle Years and Secondary programmes, and its BCP Potohar page lists a College Programme.

On fees, the most complete source is the PEIRA register, which shows what each school filed class by class. The register pages we opened never state whether a figure is monthly, termly or yearly, so read every number as "as filed". For Dr. A. Q. Khan School & College, the Play Group and Class XI monthly fees on the school's own card match its 2023-24 filing exactly, which supports a monthly reading there. Grouped by the latest filing, the campuses fall into rough bands: roughly Rs 8,900 to Rs 16,200 at the two Dr. A. Q. Khan campuses (2025-26), Rs 12,500 to Rs 20,000 at Bahria Town International Academy (2025-26), a flat Rs 18,000 at The Revival School (2024-25 is the only year shown), Rs 35,200 to Rs 36,300 at The City School's IB campus (2025-26), and Rs 31,500 to Rs 51,000 at Westminster International (2024-25 is the newest year listed). ACE's newest filing, for 2023-24, shows class figures between 134 and 467, which do not look like monthly rupee amounts; ask the school for its card.

Watch the one-off charges, which vary more than tuition. The filings show an admission fee of Rs 30,000 at both Dr. A. Q. Khan campuses, Rs 35,000 at Bahria Town International Academy, Rs 36,300 at The City School's IB campus, Rs 18,000 at The Revival School and Rs 175,000 at Westminster International, with separate registration and "other annual" charges at most of them. The Dr. A. Q. Khan fee card on the school's website, headed "Fee-Policy (Subject to Revision)" and carrying no session year, gives lower tuition than its 2025-26 PEIRA filing: Rs 8,200 a month for Play Group and Rs 10,000 for Class XI, against Rs 10,000 and Rs 12,000 filed. It also lists a Rs 10,000 security marked refundable and Rs 6,000 in annual charges, against Rs 7,000 filed. When a card and a filing disagree, ask the office which applies to your child's session.

Transport is documented at only one campus among the pages we opened. Dr. A. Q. Khan School & College says it "provides transport facility to the students coming from all phases of Bahria Town as well as to connected areas", and its card prices the service by zone: Rs 6,000 a month within Phase-VIII, Rs 7,000 from Phase-VII and Rs 8,000 from outside, with a note that these "are subject to change in fuel prices". The Bahria Town pages for ACE and Bahria Town International Academy list facilities such as cafeterias, daycare and after-school care but say nothing about transport, and the PEIRA fee filings we opened carry no transport line. Put the transport question to each office: own fleet, private drivers, or nothing.

We will not quote journey times, because SchoolNama has no timed route data for Bahria Town. The addresses do help. The City School's IB campus, Bahria Town International Academy, Westminster International and The Revival School all give Phase VII addresses, Dr. A. Q. Khan School & College is in Phase 8, the Science & Technology campus gives Safari Villas-1, and ACE is in Phase II. Beaconhouse Potohar gives a Main GT Road, Swan Camp address that does not name Bahria Town. Families in Phases 1 to 6 should drive the morning route themselves before committing to a Phase 7 or Phase 8 campus.

Once you have two or three names, open each SchoolNama profile, set them side by side at /compare, and read /news/best-schools-in-rawalpindi and /news/best-schools-in-islamabad for the wider picture, because SchoolNama files parts of the town under each city. Profiles and filings change through the year, so confirm the current fee card, board and transport arrangement in writing before paying an admission fee.