A K-12 CBSE day school for Pune families who want their child taught in small groups, outdoors as often as indoors, and trusted with real tools — a lathe, a violin, a soldering iron, a stage.
Most schools are designed around a timetable. VIDYA was designed around a nine-year-old — how long she can sit, how far she can walk, how much noise she needs to think, and how badly she wants to be trusted with something sharp.
The result is a campus in Baner that reads more like a small town than a building: an academic quad, a working farm plot, two lab blocks, a 400-seat auditorium, and a field big enough that the football team and the athletics squad never argue over it. Every child from Class 3 upward learns one instrument, one sport and one making-skill alongside the CBSE syllabus — not instead of it.
Two teachers in every primary classroom. A child who is lost gets noticed on the same day, not at the next PTM.
Soldering, 3D printing, a potter wheel, a kitchen garden. Supervised, insured, and gloriously messy.
Practice happens in the last period, with a teacher in the room. Evenings belong to the family.
Every child who sits the board exam is counted — no filtering, no selected-batch averages.
Tap any marker on the plan. You will get the room, what happens inside it, and the walking route a Class 6 child takes to the next stop. Eight stops in about four minutes.
Pick a marker to begin. The dotted line is the walking route between stops.
Age is computed as on 30 June 2027, the cut-off for the 2027–28 session, exactly the way our admissions desk does it. Nothing is hidden until a counsellor calls you.
Session 2027–28 begins 15 June 2027. Nursery needs age 3 completed on or before 30 June 2027.
Annual, air-conditioned, GPS-tracked, one attendant per bus. Two-way pickup.
Vegetarian kitchen on campus, Jain and no-onion-garlic options daily, menu published monthly.
Illustrative fee model for demonstration. Actual VIDYA fees are notified by the Fee Regulatory Committee each February and shared in the prospectus.
Scroll and the day moves with you. This is a real Wednesday timetable from the middle school — forty-minute periods, two long breaks, and a last hour where the homework actually gets done.
Before assembly
Fourteen minutes on the grass. National anthem, a two-minute headline read by a Class 8 student, and one science or civics fact the whole school carries into the day.
Attendance, diary check, and a circle where anything from a lost water bottle to a bad night gets said out loud. The class teacher stays with the same section for two years.
The two heaviest subjects sit in the freshest hours of the day, never after lunch. English, Hindi and Marathi run on a three-week rotation; Maths is set in three ability bands that a child can move between every term.
Every child does the practical — no demonstration-only lessons. Three labs, sixteen benches each, goggles and coats issued from Class 6. Today: separating a mixture, and finding out why the salt refuses to leave.
Half an hour, and the rule is simple: nobody eats indoors on a dry day. Sand pit for the juniors, half-court basketball for the seniors, and a shaded reading deck for the children who would rather not run.
One period a week per section is spent building a source list, not a summary. 18,400 titles, four newspapers in three languages, and a librarian who will argue with a bad citation.
Social Science is taught from primary sources wherever one exists. The Class 6 unit on urban growth begins with a scanned survey map of Pune and ends with the children walking Baner on a Saturday field study.
Twice a week the timetable simply stops and children build. Line-follower chassis, a working weather station on the terrace, and one competition robot the Class 9 team refuses to let anyone else touch.
Western strings, Hindustani vocal, tabla, Bharatanatyam and a theatre track. The 400-seat auditorium is booked 118 days a year, mostly by children who are not yet good.
Football, athletics, basketball, kho-kho, swimming and archery. Every child is on a squad list; every squad gets the main field at least twice a week.
Twenty minutes of supervised written work with the subject teacher in the room. What is not finished goes home; most days, nothing does.
Juniors board first from the covered bay, seniors after. Every boarding is scanned, and the parent app pings the moment a child gets on and off the bus.
A child who joins us in Nursery leaves at eighteen having had the same librarian, the same field and, more often than not, three of the same teachers.
Play-led, phonics-based, entirely on the ground floor. Ratio of one adult to eleven children.
Two teachers per classroom, three languages, and the first taste of the workshop from Class 4.
Subject teachers, banded Mathematics, and the making periods that most children remember longest.
CBSE board preparation with a mentor for every eight students and zero external tuition dependence.
Science, Commerce and Humanities streams with in-school JEE, NEET and CUET tracks.
Every child from Class 3 up picks one making club, one performing club and one sport. They may switch at the end of each term, and most do at least once.
A competition build team of 22, an open bay for everyone else, and a mentor from an Aundh engineering firm every Thursday.
Guru-shishya format with two visiting ustads. Annual baithak in the auditorium, tanpura provided.
Wheel-thrown pottery, printmaking, mural work on the boundary wall, and a genuinely good kiln.
Two conferences hosted, four attended. Position papers get marked harder than board answers.
An 8-inch Dobsonian on the terrace, four night sessions a year, and a Perseid watch that parents are allowed to gatecrash.
Two district-level squads. Practice at 6:45 AM, and the bus waits for them.
A twelve-page termly paper, a podcast, and an editorial board that has refused a principal edit twice.
Half an acre of beds worked by Classes 3 to 6. Whatever is harvested goes to the school kitchen that week.
Low teacher turnover is the single number we watch hardest. A child should not have to explain themselves to a new adult every June.
Ph.D. in Education, SPPU. Began here as a Class 4 teacher in 2006 and has taught every primary section since.
M.Sc. Physics. Runs the practical-first policy and the terrace weather station that has logged Baner rainfall since 2019.
B.Tech Mechatronics, VIT Pune. Coaches the FIRST® team and insists every child solders their own first joint.
Trained in Gwalior gharana vocal and Western theory. Builds the annual production from scratch with Class 9.
M.L.I.Sc. Curates 18,400 titles and teaches the Class 6 to 12 source-evaluation module that everyone quietly dreads.
Former Maharashtra state footballer. Six sports, four coaches, and a rule that no child sits out of games.
Every bus is GPS-tracked with a live parent app, an attendant on board, and an RFID scan at boarding and alighting. Pick your locality below to see the slab your fee estimate uses.
No stock smiles and no staged handshakes. Tap any frame to open it.
Two floors, four newspapers in three languages, a quiet mezzanine that seats forty, and a research-skills module every child from Class 6 upward has to pass. Reading is not a club here. It is the building at the centre of the map.
Collected at the last two parent-teacher meetings, printed unedited.
We moved from a much bigger name in Kothrud, and the difference showed in six weeks. Ira stopped saying she was bad at maths. The banding is not a label here — she moved up a band in January and her teacher called us the same evening to say so.
The honest thing I will say is that the fee is not small. What we get for it is a child who comes home at four with nothing left to finish, and evenings that belong to us again. For a working couple in Hinjawadi that is worth every rupee.
My son is on the robotics team. Last October the build ran late and Fatima ma’am stayed back till seven with four children and a parent volunteer. She did not mention it to us. We found out from another parent.
What sold us was the Saturday walk-through. Nobody handed us a glossy folder. A Class 8 girl took us around for forty minutes and answered every question, including the one about what she does not like here.
Our daughter has a mild hearing loss. The school moved her to the front, trained the whole section on facing her when they speak, and the class teacher learned twenty words of sign. We did not have to ask twice.
Tuition below is annual and payable in three terms. Transport, meals and the uniform-and-books kit are optional and priced separately — use the estimator above for your exact figure.
Published in the format CBSE requires of every affiliated school, and kept on the notice board outside the admin porch.
Walk-throughs run every Saturday at 9:30 AM and are led by students, not the marketing desk. Weekday visits by appointment.
Survey 41, Pashan-Sus Road, Baner,
Pune, Maharashtra 411045
Tell us who is coming and when. The message goes straight to the admissions desk on WhatsApp — no form queue, no call centre, no follow-up spam.
A Class 8 volunteer takes your family around. They are briefed to answer honestly, including the awkward questions.
Junior block, a lab, the library, the field and the robotics bay. Ends at the admissions desk with your fee sheet printed.
Not a brochure, not a phone pitch. Forty minutes on the field, in a lab and in the library, on a working Saturday, with a student who will tell you the truth.
