Both are online British curriculum schools teaching live, timetabled lessons with qualified subject teachers. They price very differently, they hold different accreditation, and they suit different families. This page sets out what each school publishes about itself, with every figure sourced and dated, so you can weigh it up without booking a call first.
All figures taken from both schools' own published pages for the 2026/27 academic year. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
Less on tuition and registration for an eight subject International GCSE year, CambriLearn Standard against King's InterHigh
Less for a three subject A Level year on CambriLearn Standard, where the published gap is widest
CambriLearn enrols from age 4. King's InterHigh Primary begins at age 7, so it cannot take younger children
King's InterHigh sells a packaged school year with a set number of subjects included. CambriLearn charges per subject and per support level. That single structural difference explains most of the price gap, and it explains which families each school genuinely serves better.
CambriLearn tends to suit
King's InterHigh tends to suit
Why this page concedes things. A comparison that only flatters the school publishing it is no use to a parent making a five figure decision. Where King's InterHigh is stronger, this page says so and shows the evidence. Everything here comes from each school's own published pages.
Three like-for-like years, priced on each school's published 2026/27 rates. King's InterHigh figures are its annual contract tuition plus its one-off registration fee. CambriLearn figures are its per subject tuition multiplied by the same subject count, plus its one-off registration fee. Examination entry is excluded from both sides, because neither school includes it.
| The year in question | CambriLearn Standard | CambriLearn Premium | King's InterHigh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary, 7 subjectsAges 7 to 11 | £2,332.007 subjects at £323.10, plus £70.30 registration | £4,898.907 subjects at £689.80, plus registration | £4,495.00£4,395 packaged, 7 subjects included, plus £100 registration |
| International GCSE, 8 subjectsAges 15 to 16, UK Years 10 and 11 | £4,017.508 subjects at £493.40, plus registration | £7,859.108 subjects at £973.60, plus registration | £7,350.00£7,250 packaged, 8 subjects included, plus registration |
| A Level, 3 subjectsAges 16 to 19 | £1,655.203 subjects at £528.30, plus registration | £3,475.903 subjects at £1,135.20, plus registration | £7,685.00£7,585 stated as based on 3 subjects, plus registration |
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Basis of the comparison. King's InterHigh figures are its published annual contract tuition for 2026/27 plus its £100 registration fee. CambriLearn figures are its published per subject tuition at the same subject count plus its £70.30 registration fee. The primary row uses the CambriLearn Stage 4 to 6 rate, which is the higher of the two bands covering ages 7 to 11, so the comparison runs in King's InterHigh's favour there rather than ours. Deposits and examination entry fees are excluded from both sides.
Read those totals honestly, including the one that goes against us. On the Standard package CambriLearn comes in £2,163.00 lower at primary, £3,332.50 lower at International GCSE and £6,029.80 lower at A Level. On Premium the picture changes: CambriLearn is £403.90 higher than King's InterHigh at primary and £509.10 higher at International GCSE, and only at A Level does Premium still land £4,209.10 lower.
Premium adds direct chat with teachers, live question and answer sessions and mock examinations on top of everything in Standard. If price is your test, compare Standard. If you want the closest match to a packaged full service year, Premium and King's InterHigh sit within about five hundred pounds of each other below Sixth Form, and the A Level year is where CambriLearn's per subject model pulls decisively ahead.
King's InterHigh publishes two contract types. The annual contract is the cheaper of the two and can be paid monthly across ten months from September to June. The rolling contract costs more across a full year and lets a family give notice at the end of any half term they have paid for.
| Stage | Annual contract | Rolling contract | Subjects included | Each extra subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary, ages 7 to 11 | £4,395 a year | £955 a half term | 7 | £405 annual, £83.50 rolling |
| Middle School, ages 11 to 14 | £5,995 a year | £1,360 a half term | 9 | £435 annual, £89 rolling |
| GCSE, ages 14 to 16 | £7,250 a year | £1,590 a half term | 8 | £835, or £545 for an assured subject |
| A Levels, ages 16 to 19 | £7,585 a year for 3 subjects | £1,780 a half term for 3 subjects | 1 to 5, price varies | Not published per subject |
| IB Diploma, ages 16 to 19 | £10,990 a year | Not available | 3 core components plus 6 subjects | Fixed programme |
Prices shown include VAT where it applies. A £100 one-off registration fee applies per child. A deposit of £500 for UK students, or £1,000 outside the UK, is listed against the annual contract. The school also publishes 2027/28 fees on the same page, so check the year your child would actually start.
Its fees page is clear that examination centre fees are separate, and that some extracurricular activities including school trips, events and summer camps can carry their own charges, alongside optional books from a recommended list. It also states that a Technology Integration Fee applies across Inspired Group schools, King's InterHigh included, without publishing the amount. Ask for that figure in writing before you sign anything, because it is the one published cost on either side of this comparison with no number attached to it.
CambriLearn charges per subject, and you choose a package per subject rather than one setting for the whole timetable. Standard covers live timetabled lessons, a recorded lesson library, marked assignments with teacher feedback, progress reports and academic support. Premium adds direct chat with teachers, live question and answer sessions and mock examinations. A child can sit on Premium for mathematics and Standard for humanities, and the fee follows that choice.
Tuition is billed monthly across the school year. A one-off registration charge of £70.30 applies to new enrolments. Examination entry fees are set by the examination board and paid separately. Fees are set in US dollars and shown here in pounds at $1 to £0.74, so the sterling figure moves with the rate on the day you pay. Every rate is published on the CambriLearn pricing page and on the CambriLearn UK page.
| Level | Standard | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Early Years to Stage 3, ages 4 to 9 | £279.40 | £689.80 |
| Stage 4 to 6, ages 9 to 12 | £323.10 | £689.80 |
| Foundation I and II, ages 12 to 15 | £384.20 | £733.50 |
| International GCSE, ages 15 to 16 | £493.40 | £973.60 |
| AS Level, ages 16 to 18 | £528.30 | £1,135.20 |
| A Level, ages 17 to 19 | £528.30 | £1,135.20 |
Per subject, a year, billed monthly across the school year. AS and A Level figures shown are the Pearson Edexcel rates; on the International British Curriculum*, AS and A Level Premium is £1,002.00 a year. Placement is by readiness rather than age, so a consultant confirms the level before enrolment. Families joining before fees change can hold current rates through Lock In Your Fees for 2027.
Plenty of families take five or six International GCSEs rather than eight, particularly where a child is rebuilding confidence after a hard year at school. Five subjects on CambriLearn Standard comes to £2,537.30 including registration. King's InterHigh publishes no reduced rate for a lighter subject load, and its fees calculator asks for a year group rather than a subject count.
Do not read that as £7,350 for five subjects, because it may well be less. Ring its admissions team, get the five subject figure in writing, and hold it next to the CambriLearn number. If it comes back lower than you expect, that is useful information and you should act on it.
Examination entry is charged separately at both schools. King's InterHigh publishes its own centre rates, which makes the arithmetic unusually easy to see. CambriLearn students sit at independently registered centres, so the entry fee is set by the centre and the awarding body rather than by the school.
| Qualification | King's InterHigh students | External candidates |
|---|---|---|
| Standard International GCSE or GCSE | £130 | £180 |
| French, Spanish or German International GCSE | £170 | £230 |
| AS or A2 as an individual component | £170 | £250 |
| Full A Level | £300 | £400 |
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King's InterHigh separately guides families to budget roughly £150 to £200 per qualification, paid directly to the exam centre, and notes that places at its own centre are limited.
Sitting exams at the King's InterHigh centre in Abergavenny is inexpensive at £130 a subject for its own students. It also offers Pearson Edexcel International GCSE, AS and A Level exams sat at home under remote invigilation, priced separately on its online exams page. Worth knowing before you count on that route: its own guidance is that reader and scribe access arrangements are not currently available remotely, so a child who needs either will be travelling to a centre regardless.
On CambriLearn we cannot quote you a per subject figure, because the centre sets it. Our exams team guides every family through registration, entries, deadlines and access arrangements, and your consultant walks through the arrangements for your child's specific subjects before you enrol. On exam logistics, King's InterHigh has the more transparent published offer, and if exam day is your main worry you should weigh that properly.
One correction to a claim that circulates about January entries. King's InterHigh states it provides January sittings as well as May and June at its own centre. Pearson Edexcel runs January sessions for both schools, so treat staggered exam loads and retakes as common ground rather than as anyone's advantage.
If any one of these matters more to your family than cost, King's InterHigh is very likely the better school for you, and we would rather you knew that now than three months into an enrolment.
King's InterHigh states that it is accredited under the DfE's Online Education Accreditation Scheme, with Ofsted acting as the quality assurance body. CambriLearn does not hold it, and that is a real gap rather than one to talk around.
Two things are worth understanding alongside it. The scheme is voluntary and non-statutory, and no online school in the UK receives a graded Ofsted inspection, because online providers cannot register as independent schools without physical premises. Equally, the assessment behind it is substantial: the Online Education Standards run across eight sections covering curriculum, teaching, welfare, staff suitability and leadership. Where a local authority is funding a place, accreditation is often a hard condition.
King's InterHigh operates an exam centre in Abergavenny at £130 a subject for a standard International GCSE for its own students, offers remote invigilation for Pearson Edexcel subjects, and publishes a list of alternative centres for families who would rather sit elsewhere.
CambriLearn is a Pearson Edexcel accredited centre and its exams team manages registration, entries and deadlines with each family, but students sit at independently registered centres as private candidates. King's InterHigh has the stronger published position here.
King's InterHigh publishes an online IB Diploma at £10,990 a year on its 2026/27 annual contract, alongside A Levels at Sixth Form. CambriLearn does not offer the IB at all. If the IB is the route your child needs, this comparison ends here and King's InterHigh is your school.
King's InterHigh has accumulated a large volume of Trustpilot reviews over many years of operating. CambriLearn holds 4.8 out of 5 across 330+ reviews on HelloPeter, Google, Trustpilot and Facebook combined.
We are deliberately not quoting a competitor's star rating on this page, because those numbers move weekly and a stale figure would be unfair to them and useless to you. Read both profiles, sort by most recent, and weigh what parents say there above anything either school tells you about itself.
Neither school holds a graded Ofsted inspection, and neither can. Online providers cannot register as independent schools in England without physical premises, so no online school in the UK carries an Ofsted grade whatever its marketing suggests. What separates the two schools is which other credentials they hold, and those answer different questions.
The Online Education Accreditation Scheme is the UK government's voluntary route for full-time online providers, run by the Department for Education with Ofsted conducting the assessments against the Online Education Standards. It examines safeguarding, teaching quality, curriculum and leadership under a framework written for online schools in England, and accredited providers appear on the Get Information About Schools register. King's InterHigh states that it holds it. CambriLearn does not.
CambriLearn is accredited by Cognia, which reviews whole-school governance, teaching quality and continuous improvement across institutions in more than 85 countries, and it is a Pearson Edexcel accredited centre, authorised to deliver Pearson Edexcel International GCSEs and International A Levels. CambriLearn is also registered with SACAI and the IEB for its South African pathways and is NCAA approved. King's InterHigh is registered with the major boards as well, including AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel and Cambridge Assessment International Education*.
Universities admit on qualifications, grades and references rather than on which accreditation scheme a school joined. Pearson Edexcel International GCSEs and International A Levels are regulated by Ofqual, carry UCAS tariff points and are accepted by every Russell Group university, and the certificate is identical whichever approved centre prepared the student. 98% of CambriLearn graduates receive a university acceptance. King's InterHigh publishes its own results and destinations on its site, and it is worth reading both.
The honest summary is this. If DfE accreditation is a condition of your decision, or of funding for the place, King's InterHigh meets it and CambriLearn does not. If your test is whether the qualification opens the same doors, both schools deliver examinations set and graded by the same boards.
Six structural differences, each one checkable against what both schools publish about themselves.
£493.40 a year for an International GCSE subject on Standard, £528.30 at AS and A Level. Drop a subject and the cost drops with it. Add one and you pay for one. There is no eight subject minimum to work around.
CambriLearn teaches ages 4 to 19. King's InterHigh Primary begins at age 7. If you have a five year old and a Year 10 student, one school can take both children.
The International British Curriculum* and Pearson Edexcel sit alongside US K-12, CAPS, IEB and KABV. That matters for families moving between the UK and southern Africa, or holding a route open in two countries at once.
Standard covers live timetabled lessons, a recorded lesson library, marked assignments with teacher feedback, progress reports and academic support. Premium adds direct teacher chat, live question and answer sessions and mock examinations. Choose one per subject.
Registration is £70.30 against £100, charged per child at both schools. CambriLearn publishes no deposit requirement. King's InterHigh lists £500 in the UK, or £1,000 outside it, against its annual contract, so ask how and when that is returned.
CambriLearn courses are NCAA approved, which US college athletics eligibility requires. Coursework from schools outside that list does not count toward eligibility, so confirm the status of any school you are considering before your child enrols.
Stated plainly, because families ask. CambriLearn is accredited by Cognia, is a Pearson Edexcel accredited centre, is registered with SACAI and the IEB, and offers NCAA approved courses. CambriLearn is not a registered Cambridge school and does not hold Department for Education accreditation.
Nothing academic is lost in the move, because both schools prepare students for the same externally examined qualifications. Subject knowledge carries across and exam entries are made fresh. Timing is the part that needs care, particularly mid-course.
An academic consultant on UK time reviews your child's year group, subject list and target qualifications, and answers the questions this page cannot answer for your specific situation.
Every current subject maps to its CambriLearn equivalent, and you pick Standard or Premium per subject. Your quote reflects that exact list rather than a bundle.
On a King's InterHigh rolling contract you can give notice during the half term you have paid for. On an annual contract, read its refund policy and deposit conditions before you fix a switch date.
Enrolment completes online at any point in the year and most students are in live lessons within a week. Where your child is midway through a two year course, we plan the next Pearson Edexcel session around the work already covered.
On the published 2026/27 figures, CambriLearn Standard costs less at every stage compared here. An eight subject International GCSE year is £4,017.50 in tuition and registration against £7,350, and a three subject A Level year is £1,655.20 against £7,685. CambriLearn Premium is a different picture: at International GCSE it comes to £7,859.10, which is £509.10 more than King's InterHigh. Examination entry is charged separately by both schools.
King's InterHigh publishes annual contract fees of £4,395 for Primary, £5,995 for Middle School, £7,250 for GCSE, £7,585 for three A Levels and £10,990 for the IB Diploma. A £100 one-off registration fee applies per child, and a deposit of £500 for UK students or £1,000 outside the UK is listed against the annual contract. Rolling half termly contracts cost more across a full year, at £955 for Primary, £1,360 for Middle School, £1,590 for GCSE and £1,780 for three A Levels. Examination entry, some trips and activities, and a Technology Integration Fee of an unpublished amount all sit outside tuition.
Neither school holds a graded Ofsted inspection, because online providers in England cannot register as independent schools without physical premises. What King's InterHigh holds, and CambriLearn does not, is accreditation under the Department for Education's Online Education Accreditation Scheme, for which Ofsted acts as the quality assurance body. The scheme is voluntary and produces accreditation rather than a grade such as Good or Outstanding, though the standards behind it are extensive. If a local authority is funding your child's place, ask them whether DfE accreditation is a condition, because it often is.
No, and the claim is worth correcting because it circulates. King's InterHigh runs its own exam centre in Abergavenny, charging its students £130 for a standard International GCSE, and it offers Pearson Edexcel exams sat at home under remote invigilation. Families who prefer a different location can choose from a published list of centres. What it does not do is include examination entry in tuition, and the same is true at CambriLearn, where entry fees are set by the centre and the awarding body.
Yes. Pearson Edexcel International GCSEs and International A Levels are regulated by Ofqual, carry UCAS tariff points and are accepted by every Russell Group university. Both schools are approved Pearson Edexcel centres, and the certificate is identical whichever centre prepared the student. Recognition is not the same as meeting a particular course's entry requirements, so check the subject and grade requirements for the exact course your child is aiming at, especially for medicine, veterinary science and engineering.
No. CambriLearn's Sixth Form route is International A Levels through Pearson Edexcel, with January and June examination sessions. King's InterHigh delivers the IB Diploma Programme online at £10,990 a year on its 2026/27 annual contract. Families weighing the two routes should look at what each buys: six subjects at moderate depth against three or four A Levels studied deeply, which remains the most common route into UK universities and costs several thousand pounds a year less here.
Both schools admit students outside the standard September start, and CambriLearn enrols at any point in the year with fees running on a twelve month cycle from the enrolment date. The harder question is where your child sits in an examination course. Moving midway through a two year International GCSE or A Level programme needs a plan for the content already covered and any entries already made, which is what a consultation is for.
At King's InterHigh: examination centre fees, some extracurricular activities including trips, events and summer camps, optional books from a recommended list, and a Technology Integration Fee that applies across Inspired Group schools without a published amount. A deposit of £500 in the UK or £1,000 outside it is listed against the annual contract. At CambriLearn: examination entry fees, which are set by the examination board and the centre, and textbooks, which are purchased separately. Tuition is billed monthly across the school year.
Choose King's InterHigh if you need DfE accreditation, the IB Diploma, or exams sat at home under remote invigilation, or if your child will take eight or more International GCSEs. Choose CambriLearn if you want to pay only for the subjects your child takes, you are enrolling a child under seven, you need a pathway other than the British curriculum, your child is a student athlete needing NCAA approved coursework, or the A Level difference of roughly six thousand pounds a year is decisive. If you are genuinely torn, a consultation is free and we will tell you if the other school fits your child better.
A free consultation with a CambriLearn academic consultant on UK time. We will look at your child's stage, subjects and timings, price it honestly against the quote you have from anywhere else, and say so if another school suits your family better.
Every figure on this page is taken from each school's own published information for the 2026/27 academic year, correct at the time of publishing. Fees change, and King's InterHigh also publishes 2027/28 rates, so confirm the year your child would start with both schools before deciding. Comparisons cover tuition and registration on a stated subject count, on the King's InterHigh annual contract basis, excluding examination fees. Deposits are excluded from the totals because the King's InterHigh deposit is a condition of its annual contract rather than tuition. Where King's InterHigh publishes no rate, most importantly for a reduced subject load, this page says so rather than estimating it, and we would encourage you to ask them directly.
King's InterHigh is a trading name of Reddam House (Berkshire) Limited and forms part of the Inspired Education Group. CambriLearn is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by King's InterHigh or the Inspired Education Group. All trade marks belong to their respective owners.
*'International British Curriculum' refers to the curriculum framework delivered by CambriLearn, which prepares students to write examinations administered by Cambridge Assessment International Education and Pearson Edexcel at independently registered examination centres as private candidates. CambriLearn is not a registered Cambridge school and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge University or Cambridge University Press.
