Pinewoods International High School & Junior College is a co-educational residential institution run by Mahatma Laxmanji Arya Educational Public Charitable Trust in Panchgani.

Panchgani can be reached :
a) By road from Mumbai via Express Highway to Pune, connecting to Satara -
Bengaluru Highway - to Wai - Panchgani 250 Kms.
b) By road from Pune - 80 Kms.
(Pune is well connected by flights, trains, and different means of road transport).

Here in PINEWOODS, the institution offers a clean, happy and safe atmosphere together with the benefits of modern facilities and educational technology within a traditional Indian cultural and moral framework.

The institution ethos is one of a formal and disciplined approach to both academic and leisure activities. Development of mind, strong character, will-power and personality are not achieved by chance but are brought about by a policy designed to achieve them. Similarly, knowledge, skill and moral attitudes are acquired through a curriculum decided by the institution:

Thus the institution -

AIMS TO ENGENDER

• to instill a positive attitude towards learning as an immediate enrichment of life and as a preparation for future education.
• to orient each child individually through educational process so that the child can realize his/ her maximum potential, self confidence and sense of personal responsibility.
• to provide each child with opportunities and discover and foster interests and talents in arts and other non academic areas.
• to impart character traits, trust, dependability, honesty and refinement.
• to foster realistic understanding appreciation of the culture of India.
• to have tolerant attitudes towards all moral and religious values.
• to respect for what is good, true and virtuous human achievement.