The School of St. Athanasios was founded in November 1968 by His Eminence Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, Gregorios. Since then, it has continuously provided its services to the Hellenic Community in Cambridge. The School is a not-for-profit organization. It is a voluntary community school of the Greek and Cypriot communities living in Cambridgeshire and its neighbouring counties and works under the auspice of the Central Educational Council (Κ.Ε.Σ.), whose president is His Emincence the Archbishop.
The School has been strongly supported by the local Community. In particular, it had for many decades been located in the Community’s premises at 5 Mill Road. In September 2015, the School moved to the newly acquired St. Athanasios premises where for the first time, the Church, the School and the Community came together at the same site.
Since 1990, the School has been supported by the Education Offices of the Embassy of Greece in London and of the Cyprus High Commission. Specifically, in 1990, the Greek Ministry of Education seconded the first teacher to the School, Mr. Nikolaos Voliotis. Since then, the school has been uninterruptedly staffed with a teacher seconded by the Ministry of Education in Greece. Moreover, the Cypriot Educational Mission has been providing funds for the employment of a part-time teacher. Furthermore, in 2012 the School was granted the status of an official Greek supplementary school by the Ministry of Education of Greece (Αναγνωρισμένο Τμήμα Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, ΤΕΓ).