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 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.

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.


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.
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.

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.

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.

We have moved our head quarter to the UK and introduced Tutorial College, one-to-one online tuition with specialist UK teachers
We wrote these down the week we opened the school, and we have not yet found a reason to change them.
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 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.
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.