An accredited online school for families in Australiateaching ages 4 to 19

Yes. Home education is legally recognised in every Australian state and territory, and using an online school as part of it is legal everywhere. Education is a state responsibility under the Constitution, so there is no national scheme: each jurisdiction has its own Act, its own registration authority and its own assessment criteria.

The practical consequence is that your state of residence sets your obligations. A family in Brisbane follows Queensland's process, a family in Melbourne follows Victoria's, and moving between them means reapplying.

Yes, and we supply most of what goes into the application. Australian families register as home educators with their own state or territory, and every international online school sits behind that same step. What changes is how much help you get with it.

Our admissions team gives you the subject list, the weekly timetable and the assessment schedule your learning plan needs, in the format the authorities ask for, and CambriCommand produces the attendance and progress evidence your review will ask for. CambriLearn is not a registered Australian school, so the registration stays in your name rather than ours.

An ATAR is calculated for students completing an Australian Year 12 qualification. A student holding International A Levels is assessed instead, and receives a selection rank that universities use in the same way when making offers. In New South Wales and the ACT that assessment runs through the Universities Admissions Centre. The University of Sydney bases admission on results in up to four Advanced Level subjects.

There is a recent development worth checking. On 16 June 2026 Cambridge announced that UAC had released a fine-grained schedule allowing domestic Australian students who take three Cambridge International A Levels to be considered for ATAR outcomes through UAC, and said universities across New South Wales and the ACT can apply it. That is the awarding body's announcement, so check the detail with UAC or the university for your child's specific course.

The state senior certificates, HSC, VCE, QCE, WACE, SACE and TCE, do lead directly to an ATAR. CambriLearn does not teach them, and reaching one as a home educating family generally means enrolling with a state distance education provider under that state's eligibility rules.

Yes. They are assessed as overseas secondary qualifications by the state admissions centres and by universities directly. Apply through UAC for New South Wales and the ACT, VTAC for Victoria, QTAC for Queensland, SATAC for South Australia and the Northern Territory, and TISC for Western Australia. The University of Tasmania handles its own admissions.

Each institution publishes its own conversion, and the scales differ, so check the stated entry requirement for the specific course your child is aiming at rather than working from a single national table. Our academic team supports the application from predicted grades through to confirmation, and the same qualifications open UK universities through UCAS and most United States universities through the Common App or direct application.

In most states, no. Victoria is the clearest: the VRQA asks for a learning plan covering eight key learning areas, then states that you decide the content and do not have to follow the Victorian Curriculum or any other specific curriculum. Queensland assesses outcomes without prescribing materials. New South Wales assesses programs against NESA syllabus outcomes. Tasmania does not require a specific curriculum.

Two jurisdictions are tighter. Western Australia expects a program consistent with the Western Australian Curriculum, and the Northern Territory expects alignment with ACARA-approved material. International curricula are accepted in most states because the learning plan maps onto the required learning areas, which is the work our admissions team helps you do.

In the afternoon, which for most of the families who choose us is the reason rather than the compromise. A typical International GCSE student has two or three 45-minute live lessons a day, and the core academic subjects sit in the earliest slots: between 2:00pm and 5:45pm in Perth, 3:30pm and 7:15pm in Darwin, and 4:00pm and 7:45pm in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, an hour later in Sydney and Melbourne during daylight saving. Early Years runs one 45-minute lesson on each of Monday to Thursday, at 4:00pm in Perth and 6:00pm on the east coast.

Mornings stay free for training, therapy, sleep or quiet work, and every lesson is recorded and appears in the campus the same day with the assignments and teacher notes. A smaller group of subjects, mostly languages, History and ICT, runs later in the afternoon. Your consultant maps your child's exact subjects onto your clock on the call, so you see the week before you commit to it.

CambriLearn charges per subject rather than one bundled school fee. At International GCSE a subject is A$796.65 a year on Standard or A$1,572.15 on Premium when you pay up front, so six subjects come to A$4,779.90 or A$9,432.90 for the year. Primary subjects start at A$451.20. A one-off registration charge of A$133.95 applies to new enrolments, and examination entry fees are set by the board and paid to the centre.

You can spread tuition over ten monthly instalments instead, which costs about 18% more across the year: A$94.00 a month a subject at International GCSE, or A$564.00 a month for six. Fees are charged in US dollars and shown in Australian dollars at $1 to A$1.41, so the figure moves with the exchange rate. The fee calculator converts at the live rate and gives your child's exact total.

At a registered examination centre in Australia, in person, entered as a private candidate. Cambridge papers are administered through registered Cambridge schools and Pearson papers through Pearson approved centres, with the strongest coverage in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Our examinations team knows which centres take private candidates, identifies the options near you, confirms subject codes and tracks the deadlines, which is the step most families dread doing alone.

Entries open well ahead of the papers, so contact starts four to five months out. For the October and November series that means June; for May and June it means January, which falls in the summer holidays here, so it goes in the diary during Term 4. Regional families usually pair examination days with a trip to the nearest capital.

Not on Pearson Edexcel. International GCSE and International A Level Biology, Chemistry and Physics with Pearson Edexcel are assessed entirely through written papers, with no practical component at any level, so a private candidate can complete all three without access to a school laboratory. Cambridge papers do carry a practical at AS Level, which means registering at a centre that can run it. Outside the capital cities this usually decides the board for science students.

You reapply to the new authority, because home education registration belongs to you rather than to the school. A New South Wales registration does not carry across to Queensland or Victoria. Allow several weeks for the new application before you let the old one lapse, so you do not create a compliance gap.

Your CambriLearn enrolment continues without interruption. The curriculum, the teachers, the timetable and any examination entries already lodged are unaffected by the move, which is a large part of why relocating families choose this route in the first place.

Ages 4 to 19, so one school covers online primary school and online high school without your child changing provider at Year 7. Early Years A and B cover the Foundation year your state calls Prep, Kindergarten, Reception, Pre-primary or Transition. Primary Stage 1 to 6 covers Years 1 to 6. Foundation I and II cover Years 7 and 8, which confuses people, so it is worth saying plainly that our Foundation levels are lower secondary and have nothing to do with the Australian Foundation year. International GCSE covers Years 9 and 10, AS Level covers Year 11 and A Level covers Year 12.

Placement is by readiness rather than by age, so a child who is ahead in Maths and finding English harder can sit at different levels in different subjects. Your consultant confirms the starting level for each subject before you enrol.

No. Australia does not provide a federal payment to home educating families, unlike New Zealand's supervisory allowance. Some states offer indirect support, such as Western Australia's School of Isolated and Distance Education supplying curriculum to remote families, and Victoria allowing partial enrolment at a local government school alongside home education for particular subjects or activities. Registration itself is generally free. Your total cost depends on the curriculum you choose and the level of teacher support you buy.

CambriCommunity runs clubs, activities and real-world meetups so students work with each other rather than only with a teacher. Students also see the same classmates in live lessons every week. Online community access is for ages 12 and over, and events and activities welcome all ages.

Australian families usually pair this with what is already in the calendar: club sport, dance, scouts, church, a local home education group. Most states have an active association, and the day starting later leaves the morning free for exactly that kind of thing.

CambriOS is what runs CambriLearn: four connected school experiences working as one school. CambriCampus is the live school day. CambriPathways is the route through year levels, subjects and qualifications. CambriCommunity is where your child finds their people. CambriCommand is your view of attendance and progress, which doubles as the evidence most state registration reviews ask for. Discover CambriOS.