A British school, without walls.

Richmond Online School is a Cambridge-registered online school built on a simple conviction: that geography should never limit a child's potential. We bring expert UK teachers and patient AI tutoring to ambitious pupils in thirty-plus countries — one live, small, properly-taught class at a time.

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Students worldwide: 30+
Countries served: 6
Cambridge pass rate: 98%

A Richmond pupil and her mother at a kitchen table during an afternoon lesson — 01A Richmond family at home — one of five hundred, in thirty-plus countries.

In this page

01Our story 02How we got here 03What we stand for 04Come and see

01Our Story

A school built for the way children actually learn now.

Founded in 2020 with one conviction: geography should never limit a child's potential. Everything that followed — the small classes, the live lessons, the patient AI tutor — comes from that sentence.

A Richmond teacher delivering a live lesson — iA Richmond teacher, mid-lesson.

Students in a live online class — iiA Year 10 class.

Richmond Online School was founded by a group of British educators who had watched traditional schooling struggle to reach the children who needed it most — families abroad, children with exceptional needs, pupils whose ambition ran ahead of their local syllabus.

Our answer was not another content library. It was a school: timetabled, taught live, with small focused classes, and built on the Cambridge International curriculum. Every lesson is led by a UK-qualified teacher. Every pupil is known by name. And every family is in the conversation.

We take the old idea of the small English classroom — the attention, the rigour, the patience — and we carry it to wherever a pupil happens to be.

The FacultyRichmond Online School

2020The beginning
A school opens.
Richmond Online School opens its virtual doors with a handful of founding families and a single, stubborn idea: that a proper English classroom need not stay in England.
2021First families
Across fifteen countries.
Word travelled. By the end of our first full year, pupils were logging in from fifteen countries and three continents — and we had to rewrite our timetable around their sunrises.
2023Patient AI
A tutor in the margins.
We built a calm, curriculum-aligned AI study companion for every pupil — because a child with a question at midnight deserves an answer, and we cannot all be awake.
2024Five hundred
And the numbers grew.
Five hundred pupils in thirty-plus countries, a 98% Cambridge pass rate, and — more importantly — children who say they actually look forward to school again.

01Every decision, every time.

The pupil comes first.

When we are uncertain, we ask one question: what is best for the pupil in front of us? It is a short question, and it settles most arguments.

02Live, live, and live.

A school, not a platform.

Richmond is a school in the old-fashioned sense. There is a timetable, there are teachers who know your child, and there are classmates who notice when they are absent.

03Quality over quantity.

Small, by conviction.

We keep our classes small. Not for effect — because it is the number at which a teacher can actually see everyone in the room, and still teach.

04Cambridge standards. British manners.

Rigour with warmth.

We hold the Cambridge line on academic rigour, and the English line on kindness. Children do their best work when they feel known, and challenged, at the same time.

04Come and See

The best way to understand a school
is to visit it.

Book a free live class with our teachers, meet a few of our pupils, and ask us anything. No sales pitch, no obligation — just an hour inside a Richmond lesson.

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A British school, without walls.

A school built for the way children actually learn now.

Four years, four quiet turning points.

A school opens.

Across fifteen countries.

A tutor in the margins.

And the numbers grew.

Four values we will not compromise on.

The pupil comes first.

A school, not a platform.

Small, by conviction.

Rigour with warmth.

The best way to understand a school
is to visit it.

A British school, without walls.

A school opens.

Across fifteen countries.

A tutor in the margins.

And the numbers grew.

The pupil comes first.

A school, not a platform.

Small, by conviction.

Rigour with warmth.

The best way to understand a schoolis to visit it.

The best way to understand a school
is to visit it.