Abbottabad Public School (APS) (Urdu: ایبٹ آباد پبلک سکول; Pashto: ایبټ اباد پبلک سکول), formerly Railway Public School and Abbottabad Public School and College, is a public, all boys, boarding school for 7th to 12th grade students, located in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
[1][2] APS follows the philosophy of the British boarding schools where academic rigour is balanced with a disciplined boarding life with activities ranging from intramural sports to debating and cultural events.
[2][3][failed verification][4][5][unreliable source] In 1957, Pakistan Railways opened up a school outside Abbottabad on official railways land 'donated' by Sardar Bahadur Khan,[citation needed] brother of General Ayub Khan from Haripur, Hazara.
[6] In 1986, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the then President, renamed the institution as Abbottabad Public School & College.
Abbottabad Public School had the word "College" attached to it sometime in the 90's.