It is named after Annie Besant and located near the Kashi Railway Station on the banks of river Ganges.

The school is spread over 400 acres of a sprawling campus, stretching across both banks of the Varuna.

Across the Varuna, the Rural Centre has the Sanjivan Hospital, a free primary health centre, the Rural Primary School for students from surrounding villages, a dairy, and an agricultural farm.

The school curriculum incorporates social, cultural and extra curricular activities: regular SPIC-MACAY programs are organised on campus, exposing students to cross cultural traditions in music and inculcating appreciation in them.

In 1953, Achyut Patwardhan, a close associate of J. Krishnamurti, and a friend of Mahatma Gandhi further expanded the area adjoining the school and founded the Rajghat Rural Centre, which houses two rural schools - one for boys, and the other for girls, in the Village Saraimohana; it also has a hospital, a vocational training institute for women and a farm, which offers its services free of cost, all run by the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.