Lahore College of Arts and Sciences

Lahore College of Arts and Sciences. LACAS.
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Location
Gulberg campus: 26/H Gulberg II B.R. campus: Imperial Garden Block, Paragon City, Burki Road, Lahore Cantt J.T. Campus: 302 F/II, M.A, Johar Town Lahore, Punjab Pakistan
Information
School type	Private, preparatory
Opened	1987
Founder	Nazi Qureshi
School board	Nazi Qureshi Zainab Qureshi
Principals	Ayesha Zaigham Sara Ajmal Rubina Sajjad Saadia Rizwan
Years offered	3-4 to 18-19
Gender	Mixed
Number of students	4000-5000
Pupils	LACASIANS
Average class size	28
Education system	GCE (CIE and Edexcel)
Classes offered	O and AS/A Level
Language	English Medium
Schedule	Day school
Campuses	5
Houses	Iqbal      Jinnah      Sir Syed
Colour(s)	Red      and Black
Rival	LGS - Lahore Grammar School
Yearbook	The Vision
Website	www.lacas.edu.pk

Lahore College of Arts & Sciences (abbreviated as LACAS), founded in 1987, is a private fee-paying academic institution located at Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. LACAS provides preschool, primary and secondary education and preparation for international General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations. The institution has currently eight campuses; main one in Johar Town, one at Burki Road (or Paragon City), one in Gulberg, one at Upper Mall, and two at Canal Side (a girls campus on Rasulpur Road; a boys campus at Raiwind Road).The best campus of LACAS is the Johar Town Campus

Branches

Johar Town campus

The LACAS Johar Town campus is situated in the Johar Town housing scheme of Lahore. It currently offers classes from Preschool to Grade 11 (including GCE O Levels). All classes are coeducational except for Middle Section have separate branches for boys and girls.

• Junior Section: Preschool (Play Group, Nursery, Kindergarten), Grade I to III.
• Middle Section (Boys): Grade IV to XI (including GCE O-Level).
• Middle Section (Girls): Grade IV to XI (including GCE O-Level).

Burki Road campus

The LACAS Burki Road campus is situated in the Paragon Society on Burki Road of Lahore Cantonment, Lahore. It currently offers classes from Preschool to Grade XI (including GCE O Level).

• Junior Section: Preschool (Play Group, Nursery, Kindergarten), Grade I to V.
• Middle Section: Grade VI to XI (including GCE O-Level).

Gulberg campus

On 14 April 2010, it was officially announced by the Managing Director of the institution at the Annual Excellence Awards Distribution Ceremony that a new purpose-built campus will open in Gulberg in August 2010. The new campus houses only the A Level section.

• A Level Section: Grade XII to XIII (GCE A Level).

Academics

Organization

Section	Junior section						Middle section								A Level section
Grade	PG (Play Group)	N (Nursery)	KG (Kindergarten)	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII (Prep-I)	VIII (Prep-II)	IX (Prep-III)	X (O-I)	XI (O-II)	XII (A-I)	XIII (A-II)
Age	2+	3+	4+	5+	6+	7+	8+	9+	10+	11+	12+	13+	14+	15+	16+	17+
Education	Preschool			Lower primary			Upper primary			Lower secondary			Upper secondary (General Certificate of Education)

Curriculum

GCE Advanced Levels

Courses offered at CIE and Edexcel International GCE, AS/A Level are:

GCE AS/A Level courses taught at LACAS

Course Code	Course Title	Faculty Member
CIE 8693	English Language	Ms Nadira Tamkeen
CIE 9084	Law	Ali Atif
CIE 9231	Further Mathematics	Mr Javaid Ahmad
CIE 9686	Urdu	Mr Chaudhry Akmal
CIE 9691	Computing	Mr Mubashar Nabi
CIE 9695	Literature in English	Ms Ayesha Burque, Ms Kamilah Ali
CIE 9697	History	Ms Sonnu Rehman
CIE 9698	Psychology	Ms Komal Faisal
CIE 9699	Sociology	Ms Tahira Anwar
CIE 9700	Biology	Mr Sulman Qadeer
CIE 9701	Chemistry	Ms Duray Najaf Bukhari, Mr Zafar Iqbal
CIE 9702	Physics	Ms Talat Sajjad Qadir
CIE 9704	Art and Design	Ms Najeen Iftikhar
CIE 9706	Accounting	Mr Naveed Akram, Mr Shiraz Siddiq
CIE 9707	Business Studies	Ms Qurat-ul-Ain Aziz, Mr Shameel Khalid
CIE 9708	Economics	Mr Farida Toseef, Mr Zahid Kamal
CIE 9709	Mathematics	Mr Zahid Amin, Mr Ch. Irshad Ahmed
Edexcel 9GP01	Government and Politics	Ms Amna Omar

A-Level section is organized into four groups. 'Group' in LACAS is a class of students who share a similar combination of courses that fit their career choices and appropriate for their academic lifestyle. During the freshmen orientation, all students are required to initially select four or five courses from one of the four groups.

Monitoring

'Formal assessments' and assignments/coursework are scheduled regularly and the grades are included in the end of term report. Examinations are held at the end of each academic term/semester. All these factors contribute to the scoring of a given course in an 'Academic Progress Report'. 'Parent Teacher Meetings' (PTM) are scheduled every term where the progress of each student is discussed in detail.

External links

• Official website