Founded in 1974 by retired US Navy Lieutenant commander Reverend Norman Randall Milbank.

[5] Canterbury offers a Classical liberal arts education from a traditional Christian perspective.

Students study English as well as Latin and Greek using "traditional methods" such as phonics for teaching reading and cursive for penmanship from Abeka and Memoria Press.

[6] Their low-tech approach has been featured internationally by the German News Agency (DPA)[7] and Taiwan-based online newspaper Apple Daily.

[8] Canterbury is the parish school of Saint Paul's Anglican Church, Los Altos.