From a small online learning company in South Africa to a global school serving families in 100+ countries. Five curricula, six pathways, one belief: education should adapt to your child, not the other way around.
It started in 2008 with TopDog, a small online learning venture in South Africa built on a simple frustration: too many children were falling through the cracks of a system that was not designed for them.
In 2016, Ryan Swartzberg, Claudia Swartzberg, and Cecilia Reineke launched CambriLearn with a bigger ambition: a complete online school with registered teachers, structured timetables, and internationally recognised qualifications.
Today, led by Executive Head of School Cecilia Reineke, CambriLearn offers five internationally recognised curricula across six pathways: British, CAPS, KABV, IEB, Pearson Edexcel, and American. Over 80,000 students have learned with us, earning more than $25 million in university scholarships along the way.
Two decades on, the ambition is unchanged: build a school that fits the child, rather than asking the child to fit the school.
Academics, culture, and sport. Real CambriLearn students proving every day that learning without limits works.
A grades across all five AS Level subjects. Now studying Actuarial Science at university.
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Opened her own museum featuring a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite. Mornings for school, afternoons for curating.
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National swimming qualifier and green belt in karate, balancing three sports with full-time studies.
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Nomads SA Girls Champion. Helped Team SA win All Africa. Junior World Cup bound, Japan 2026.
Read her storyWe hold accreditations from the bodies that universities and employers actually recognise. No self-awarded badges. No fine print.
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