A British school, without walls.

Richmond Online School is an established 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.

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.
01Our Story

A school built for the way children actually learn now.

Since 2023, we’ve been driven by one simple promise: every child deserves a chance to thrive, no matter their map coordinates. Whether it’s through our small, supportive classes, the energy of our live lessons, or our patient tutoring, everything we do is about giving your child the tools they need to reach their full potential.

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, such as families abroad, children with exceptional needs, pupils whose ambition ran ahead of their local syllabus.

We didn’t want to just give your child another library of videos to watch alone. We wanted to give them a real school community. That means live lessons with teachers who actually know their face and name, small classes where they won’t get lost in the crowd, and a world-class Cambridge curriculum you can trust. Most importantly, it means you’re never left out of the loop—because we believe a child’s education works best when their family is part of the journey.

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
02How We Got Here

Four years, four quiet turning points.

Richmond did not arrive fully formed. It was built slowly, in conversation with the families who trusted us first. Here is the short version.

  1. 2023The beginning
    Richmond Online School founding

    A school opens.

    Richmond Online School opens its virtual doors with a handful of founding families in Europe.

  2. 2024First families
    Students collaborating globally

    Across four countries.

    Word travelled. By the end of our first full year, pupils were logging in from four countries and we had to rewrite our timetable around their sunrises.

  3. 2025Patient AI
    Student using AI tutor

    Launching AI study partner

    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.

  4. 2026Five hundred
    A Richmond family at home

    HQ in the UK

    We have moved our head quarter to the UK and introduced Tutorial College, one-to-one online tuition with specialist UK teachers

03What We Stand For

Four values we will not compromise on.

We wrote these down the week we opened the school, and we have not yet found a reason to change them.

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.