Sector
School Website Design
Websites for pre-schools, primary, infant, junior and online schools. Everything a parent looks for, everything the rules ask you to publish, and pages the school office can update itself.
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A school website has two jobs
Parents use it every week: term dates, letters home, clubs, dinners, the uniform list. Prospective parents use it before they ever visit, to decide whether your school goes on the shortlist.
And part of it is decided for you. The Department for Education sets out information schools must publish online, from Ofsted reports and admissions to SEND and pupil premium, and it has to be current and easy to find.
The difference is who keeps it up to date. On the school sites we build, the office changes the words and photos on the page itself, with its own login, so nothing waits for a developer.
- Prospective parentsDeciding whether to come and visit
- Current parentsTerm dates, letters and clubs, every week
- Governors and the rulesStatutory information, kept current
The three ways
Where school websites go wrong
Statutory pages scattered.
Policies and reports spread across menus, documents with no dates, and pages nobody has touched in years. A parent or a governor should find each one in two clicks.
Documents lost in a move.
Change website and the old links to letters, policies and newsletters break. When we moved Boldmere, 121 documents came across onto our own storage, so nothing points back to the old host.
One person holds the keys.
If every change goes through one member of staff or an outside company, the term dates go stale. The office should be able to fix a typo in the time it takes to spot it.
Built for parents on phones
Parents open the school website on a phone, at the school gate or in the evening. The office number, the term dates and the latest letters have to be one tap away, which is why we build mobile-first.
Behind that sits the structure: a page for every statutory item, staff and governors in proper team grids, admissions set out step by step, and newsletters and diary dates kept in one place.
For a federation, one landing page sends each family to the right school, and each school keeps its own site, its own documents and its own login.
- Statutory pagesOfsted, SEND, pupil premium
- Term datesand diary dates
- Letters homenewsletters in one place
- Staff & governorsin proper team grids
- Admissionsset out step by step
- One tap to callthe office, from any page
Proof
Clients we build for
Schools we build for today, each described from its own site.
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Sutton Coldfield
Online since 2013
What We Build
What this sector needs
Editing by the School Office
The office changes the words and photos on the page with its own login. New pages and documents come to us, and every request is answered the same working day.
Every Statutory Page
A page for each item schools must publish, each easy to find from the menu and kept together.
Documents That Survive a Move
Policies, letters and newsletters moved onto our own storage, so nothing breaks when the old host is switched off.
What's next
AI that takes the office’s routine questions
The same questions reach the office every day: dates, times, forms, admissions. AI can answer the routine ones and pass the rest to the right person, so the office can get on with the school.
Calls answered when the office is busy
A voice agent that answers in your brand's voice, takes the details and handles the query, or passes it to your team. Out of hours too.
AI voice agents →Website“When is the next INSET day?” answered
A chat assistant that answers your customers' questions on the website and hands over to your team at the right moment.
AI chatbots →PaperworkForms and letters read and filed
AI that reads the invoices, forms and emails that come in, pulls out the details and files them in the right system automatically.
AI automation →Follow-upEvery admissions enquiry followed up
Enquiries captured, sorted and passed to your team, with reminders and follow-ups sent without anyone chasing them.
AI automation →It's the same AI we're building our own business on, from our back-end systems to our sales tools. See everything we do with AI →
Prices
What it costs and how it works
Websites start from £69 a month for a focused site and £119 a month for a larger build with a content management system, so the office can edit it. Larger builds, such as a site for each school in a federation, are quoted. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Every price is agreed in writing before work starts. Hosting and support run from £45 a month on UK servers, on our Care plan, with every support request answered the same working day. See the full case studies.
Common Questions
School Website Design FAQs
Can the school office update the website?
Yes. The office signs in on the school's own site and changes the words and photos on the page itself. New pages and documents come to us, and every request is answered the same working day.
What does a school website have to publish?
The Department for Education sets out what schools must publish online, from Ofsted reports, admissions and the curriculum to SEND, pupil premium and PE and sport premium. We give each item its own page and keep them together, so they are easy to find.
Can you move our documents from the old website?
Yes. For Boldmere we moved 121 documents onto our own storage, so none of the new pages link back to the old host and it can be switched off without breaking anything.
Do you build for federations and groups of schools?
Yes. The Federation of Boldmere Schools has one landing page that sends each family to the right school, and each school has its own full site.
Do you work with online schools?
Yes. Net School, an online school teaching Key Stage 3, IGCSE and A Level, has a page for each course, its teachers introduced, and a calculator that works out a term's fees.
How much does a school website cost?
From £69 a month for a focused site, or £119 a month with a content management system so the office can edit it, with hosting and support included. Larger builds are quoted.
Get started
Need a website parents can actually use?
Tell us about your school and what the website needs to do, and we'll show you what it could look like.