These are small one-teacher schools, located at the centre of the village. The community often but not always donates the land for these schools. With major inputs from the community and students, the land around the school, which in some cases covers as much as half an acre, is fenced off, landscaped to prevent erosion, and planted with fruit trees, flowering bushes and medicinal plants. Adult literacy programmes, integration of local traditional arts in the form of puppet shows, health and nutrition projects converge in this location.

Each Satellite School serves as resource centre for the villages to which it belongs. After several years of continuous planting each village school now is a green public space in which all the inhabitants of the village have a stake. The process that began sixteen years ago with the setting up of the first school, Valmikivanam, has been steadily carried forward and today there are 15 single-teacher schools in a 25-km radius around Rishi Valley.

Satellite Schools are gradually extending their reach by interacting with Government-run Schools, and helping organize reading workshops, metric melas among other joint activities.