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.
Richmond Online School brings a British education to students anywhere in the world. Expert UK teachers and patient AI tutoring, delivered in live, small classes.
Founded in October 2025 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.


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 British 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.
Richmond did not arrive fully formed. It was built slowly, in conversation with the families who trusted us first. Here is the short version.
Richmond Online School opens its virtual doors with a handful of founding families in Europe.
We moved our headquarters to the United Kingdom and introduced Tutorial College — one-to-one online tuition with specialist UK teachers.
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.
Word travelled. Pupils now log in from four continents — and we rewrite our timetable around their sunrises.
Our values shape how we teach, how we support families, and the kind of community we build.
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.
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.
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.
We hold the 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.
We want students not only to gain qualifications but also to enjoy learning. Interactive lessons, rich resources and regular academic follow-up help students become curious, reflective and independent learners.
Our students learn with peers from around the world. We encourage them to value different perspectives, communicate respectfully, and contribute positively to their communities—locally and globally.
We believe education works best when school and home work together. We communicate clearly, share progress, and listen carefully to families so we can provide the right support at the right time.
Book a free live class with our teachers, meet a few of our pupils, and ask us anything.