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Private School Website Development
Enrollment-Driven Websites for Private Schools

School websites built from scratch to turn prospective families into enrolled students. Fast, accessible, and designed to actually represent your school.

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40%
Enrollment Lift
Average increase in inquiries
<1.5s
Load Time
Mobile-first performance
100%
ADA Compliant
WCAG 2.1 AA standard
0
Vendor Lock-in
You own everything
What Is Private School Website Development?

Private school website development means designing and building a custom website for independent and private K-12 schools. These sites are built around enrollment conversion, parent communication, faculty directories, event calendars, and admissions workflows—while staying accessible and true to each school's brand and academic culture.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your current site looks outdated and doesn't match your school's reputation
Risk: Prospective families leave before booking a tour and choose competitors with better-looking sites instead.
Admissions inquiry forms are buried or broken
Risk: Qualified families won't dig around for a contact page—they'll just apply somewhere else.
Staff can't update events, news, or faculty bios without calling a developer
Risk: Stale content makes your school look disorganized, and that erodes trust with both current and prospective parents.
Your site isn't accessible to users with disabilities
Risk: ADA non-compliance opens your school up to lawsuits and shuts out families who can't engage with your content.
The mobile experience is broken—slow loads, bad layouts, tiny text
Risk: Over 65% of parents research schools on their phones. A poor experience costs you enrollments.
No integration with your SIS, CRM, or email tools means admissions staff waste time on manual data entry and leads fall through the cracks.
Risk: Manual data entry wastes admissions staff time and increases the chance of dropping a lead

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

WCAG 2.1 AA Accessibility

Every page ships with accessibility built in. Screen readers, keyboard navigation, and color contrast are all tested before launch.

FERPA-Aware Architecture

Student data stays protected. Parent portals and forms are built so no personally identifiable student information is ever exposed publicly.

SEO-Optimized Structure

Schema markup for educational organizations, local SEO for your area, and clean URL structures that rank for enrollment-related searches.

Core Web Vitals Tuned

Sub-second largest contentful paint and zero layout shift. Google rewards fast sites with better rankings—and parents reward them with trust.

Analytics & Enrollment Tracking

GA4 event tracking on tour requests, application starts, and form submissions. You'll know exactly which pages are driving enrollment.

Content Management for Staff

A headless CMS with role-based permissions so admissions, athletics, and communications teams each manage their own content independently.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Virtual Tour Integration

360° tours and video walkthroughs embedded directly into campus pages, using lazy-loaded media so performance doesn't take a hit.

Admissions Funnel Pages

Dedicated landing pages for each grade level with inquiry forms, tuition details, and clear calls-to-action that move families toward applying.

Faculty & Staff Directory

A searchable, filterable directory managed through the CMS—headshots, bios, credentials, and department groupings all included.

Event Calendar & News Hub

A staff-managed calendar with categories for athletics, academics, arts, and community events. Entries are automatically archived and SEO-indexed.

Parent Portal Gateway

A secure, authenticated section connecting to your SIS, lunch ordering, carpool systems, and internal communication tools.

Multi-Campus Support

A shared design system with campus-specific content, navigation, and branding for schools running across multiple locations.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSanityVercelTailwind CSSCloudflareGoogle Analytics 4

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery & Enrollment Audit

Week 1-2

We study your current site's enrollment funnel, talk to admissions staff, look at competitor schools, and nail down your conversion goals.

02

Information Architecture & Design

Week 3-5

Sitemap, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs for key pages. You approve every screen before any code gets written.

03

Development & CMS Setup

Week 6-9

We build on Next.js with a headless CMS configured for your team's workflow. Admissions forms, directories, and calendars all get wired up properly.

04

Content Migration & QA

Week 10-11

Existing content is migrated, redirects are mapped, and every page is tested across devices, browsers, and assistive technologies.

05

Launch & Staff Training

Week 12

We go live, train your team on the CMS, and stay available for 30 days post-launch to handle any adjustments that come up.

Private School Websites from $8,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support included. See all packages →

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most private school websites launch in 10–12 weeks. More complex builds—parent portals, multi-campus support, SIS integrations—can run 14–16 weeks. We set timelines during discovery so nothing catches you off guard, and we work around your enrollment calendar so the launch date actually makes sense.
Yes. We configure a headless CMS with role-based access so admissions, athletics, and communications staff each manage their own sections. The editing interface is visual and requires no coding. We also run hands-on training during launch week so your team feels confident from day one.
Yes. Every site we build meets WCAG 2.1 AA standards. We test with screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, and automated accessibility audits. That protects your school from legal risk and makes sure every prospective family can access your content, regardless of ability.
We regularly integrate with platforms like Blackbaud, FACTS, Veracross, and others. Usually this means building a secure parent portal gateway that authenticates users and connects directly to your SIS dashboard, lunch systems, and communication tools—without exposing any student data.
Private school websites start at $8,000 for a core enrollment-focused build. Most schools fall in the $10K–$18K range depending on features like parent portals, multi-campus support, virtual tours, and CMS complexity. Every project is fixed-fee with no surprise charges at the end.
SEO is part of every project. We add local schema markup for educational organizations, optimize page titles and meta descriptions for enrollment keywords, make sure load times satisfy Google's Core Web Vitals, and set up GA4 tracking so you can see exactly which pages are generating tour requests and applications.

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