The city of Kanchipuram consists of ‘Big’ Kanchipuram and ‘Little’ Kanchipuram. The former has seen much growth due to its famous silk trade and has sufficient educational infrastructure. Earlier, due to lack of good transportation, children had to walk about 6 km to go to school in the ‘Big’ area. To alleviate this, and to give the children of Little Kanchipuram good educational opportunities, The Yatheendra Educational Trust was founded and which runs the school. The school follows the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum (which many consider superior to others) and aims to grow into a high school. Currently there are no schools that follow the CBSE curriculum within a radius of 20 miles from the school.

Limiting attention only to the educational needs of Little Kanchipuram, a Trust was formed in 2006 and named as "Yatheendra Educational Trust". Yatheendra is one of the names of the philosopher Ramanuja whose formative years were spent in this part of India. The name was chosen also having in mind his reformative social philosophy and concern for the down-trodden. The Trust aims at even a University projecting the cultural heritage of India and in particular, Kanchipuram. As a beginning, a primary school with pre-KG, LKG, UKG, and I standard classes began functioning from 6 June 2006 with 24 students in all.