[1] The school, which was originally located on East India Dock Road, was founded in 1828 by George Green, a shipbuilder and shipwright.

In 1884, the school moved from the original buildings to new premises which provided places for 200 boys and 200 girls, in separate classrooms.

[3] It has a comprehensive intake of pupils, and is administered by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.

It was a voluntary-controlled coeducational grammar school located on East India Dock Road Poplar.

George Green's School offers GCSEs and vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils,[4] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels[5] and the IB Diploma Programme.