The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board is a successor of the West Pakistan Textbook Board which was established in 1962. Prior to the East of West Pakistan Textbook Board, there was no regular system of printing, publishing & distributing Textbooks. The publishers used to develop and print the books at their own and supply to the schools at personal contact.
In 1962, the government decided to introduce a regular system of production and distribution of textbooks. The West Pakistan Textbook Board on an autonomous body was established beside East Pakistan Textbook Board. On the disintegration of one unit in 1970 from provinces including NWFP were constituted, at that time two regional offices of West Pakistan.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board has always strived to provide error-free and quality textbooks to the students. In order to update these textbooks with today's demand, the KPTB has started the revision of core textbooks in light of feedback and suggestions received from the readers. Textbooks from Grade I to XI have been updated/ revised through subject experts at the Directorate of Curriculum & Teacher Education (DCTE), Abbottabad, and introduced accordingly. 
In pursuance of the decisions taken in the Education Secretaries Committee meeting held on 15 September4, 2007 in Islamabad and in partial modification of this Ministry’s notification No.F.8-1/2006-SSG dated 27 June, 2006, the part-wise examination system at Secondary School Certificate level shall be re-introduced
