Mathews Mar Athanasius Residential Central School (MMARCS), Chengannur is owned and managed by the Trinity Mar Thoma Educational Agency, Thittamel, Chengannur. The Management of the school is vested in the Governing Board of the T.M.E. Agency. His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Theodosius Mar Thoma Metropolitan is the Patron of the school. Rt. Rev. Dr. Euyakim Mar Coorilos Suffragan Metropolitan, the Diocesan Bishop of the Chengannur - Mavelikara Diocese, is the Vice-Patron. The Vicar of the Chengannur Trinity Mar Thoma Church, Rev. Dr. John George, is the President of the Governing Board and Manager of the school. Mathews Mar Athanasius Residential School, Chengannur and Kalamandiram Play School, Angadical South, Chengannur are the sister institutions.

Trinity Mar Thoma Church, Thittamel, Chengannur stepped into the field of education with the inception of Kalamandiram Nursery School in 1959 by the great visionary. the late Rt. Rev. Dr. Mathews Mar Athanasius Episcopa. Later in 1983, the Trinity Mar Thoma Educational (TME) Agency was registered as a charitable trust under the Societies Act of Kerala and the Kalamandiram and MMAR school were brought under the Management of the TME Agency for the academic and administrative convenience. Mathews Mar Athanasius Residential School obtained affiliation from CISCE, New Delhi in 1984.

Mathews Mar Athanasius Residential Central School was started in 2006 to cater to the demands of parents for a school based on CBSE syllabus. In a short span of time, MMAR Central School has achieved phenomenal development and earned a good reputation. It is a veritable sanctum sanctorum where the future citizens of our illustrious country will achieve refinement of tastes, perfection of talents and high moral standards. MMAR Schools have now become the land mark of Chengannur and we offer classes KG-XII in the ICSE stream and classes KG to XII in the CBSE stream. Kalamandiram Play School also functions within the campus of MMAR Schools. The schools are situated in an ideal, calm, serene environment at Angadical South on the side of Chengannur - Mavelikara road about 200 mts from M.C.