The Team
Educators, engineers, and operators who built the system — and still run it every day.
Dr. Arpita Karkare
Director & Chief Mentor, Walnut School
Credentials
This isn't a franchise company that bought an education brand.
Dr. Arpita Karkare holds a PhD from the University of Pune. She founded Walnut School with a very specific idea of what school should feel like for children — and then built the system to make that idea consistent, scalable, and repeatable.
Over 15 years, that idea became a system. Every period planned. Every assessment pre-built. Every process documented. Three campuses, 5,000 students, and a staff that doesn't burn out — because the system carries the load.
The Walnut Learning System is how that system reaches schools beyond Pune. Not as a licensing deal, but as a genuine partnership — because a system this specific only works when the people running it actually believe in it.
“Academic output increases without increasing parent or teacher burden. That's the bar. That's what the system is designed to clear.”
— Dr. Arpita Karkare, Director & Chief Mentor, Walnut School
Ravi Potnis
Co-founder & Director, Operations
Walnut School
Walnut School — The Original
Three campuses in Pune. Every system feature proven here first.
Walnut School Shivane
Pune, Maharashtra · CBSE
Walnut School Fursungi
Pune, Maharashtra · CBSE
Walnut School Wakad
Pune, Maharashtra · CBSE
A Shared Legacy
- ✓Pioneers of the Bagless School concept in India (Nursery to Grade 10)
- ✓Three campuses — Shivane, Fursungi, Wakad
- ✓System-driven approach: every period, every day, every week planned by a dedicated R&D team
- ✓Technology-first: Unity ERP manages everything from admissions to learning outcomes
- →This isn't a franchise company that bought an education brand
- →The founder built the system from scratch and still runs schools on it
- →You are partnering with the source, not a licensee
- →Every feature in the system exists because it was needed at Walnut first