4.9 on Google1,000+ school websites since 2011
School and trust websites that stay compliant, and a team that stays with you.
Bespoke school websites for every kind of school and trust, built on our own software and looked after by the same small team.
Trusted by primary schools, secondary schools and trusts including Shaw Education Trust, Place Partnership and Yardleys School.
Seriously advanced school website software, from a firm small enough to care.
Most providers of school websites are one or the other: a large platform with a ticket queue, or a friendly agency with someone else’s website builder. We built our own content management system in 2012 so schools would never have to choose, and we have stayed owner-run ever since.
We design school websites for
Choose a type of school to see how we design for it
Primary schools
Warm, welcoming and quick to keep up to date.
Primary school websites are read by parents on their phones, between the school run and work, and kept current by an office that already has plenty to do. We design for both of them.
- Class pages, letters home and term dates a tap away
- Packages published openly, from £475 a year plus VAT
- A content management system the whole office can use
Secondary schools
Premium, bespoke and built for many audiences.
A secondary school website has to speak to Year 6 families, current parents, students and future staff at the same time. We design bespoke websites that give every one of them a clear way in.
- Fully bespoke design, built around your branding and vision
- Admissions, curriculum and careers made easy to find
- Trusted by more than 250 secondary schools
Sixth forms
A website that recruits sixteen year olds.
A sixth form website is a recruitment tool first. Courses, open evenings and applications have to be impossible to miss, on a phone, in a hurry, by someone deciding where to spend the next two years.
- Course pages students actually read
- Open evenings and applications front and centre
- Student applications software that ties into the site
Special schools
Calm, accessible and clear for every family.
Families of children with SEND need to find information quickly and trust what they read. We design calm, accessible special school websites with a clear structure and plain language throughout.
- Accessibility built in from the first design
- SEND information that is easy to find and keep current
- Our free Accessibility Statement Generator and Reading Age Checker
Multi academy trusts
One trust, many schools, each with its own identity.
A trust needs a strong central website and a family of school websites that each keep their own character, with clear oversight of compliance across every one of them.
- A trust website plus a website for every school
- The MAT Portal for compliance across the trust
- A Trust Transition Plan that works around contract end dates
Comparing options? See how school website design differs for every type of school, side by side.
What the best school websites have in common.
We have designed more than 1,000 school websites, and the best of them share the same six things. Every Schudio website is built around them from the first design.
Mobile friendly, first
Most parents visit on a phone, so the best school websites work beautifully on all screen sizes, from a phone in the playground to a desktop in the office.
Clear messaging for prospective families
A homepage that showcases your school’s unique character and tells prospective parents what makes you different before they ever visit.
News, events and a calendar that stay current
Upcoming events, term dates, letters and news that take minutes to update, so current parents trust what they read and stay connected.
Easy for staff to run
A content management system designed specifically for schools, so the people who know the news can publish it themselves.
Compliant, and staying that way
Required information in place from launch, with reminders when a policy is due for review, so the site never quietly drifts.
Unlimited support behind it
A real team on the end of the phone, and training for every member of staff who needs it, for as long as you are with us.
We don’t just help with compliance. We lead on it.
Schools are required to publish a long list of information online, and the rules move. We watch the legislation and guidance behind those lists, build what we learn into the software, and tell our schools plainly when something changes.
An audit before every launch
Every new school website is checked by our compliance team before it goes live.
Tools that keep it right
Document Groups, policy review reminders and AI-powered audits flag what is missing or out of date.
2,500+ audits behind it
Our requirements framework comes from real audits of school websites, not a list copied from a list.
“I cannot stress the importance of the ‘Always Ready’ culture that Schudio have for their clients and their websites.”
- Admissions arrangementsCheckingPublished
- Ofsted reportsCheckingPublished
- Exam and assessment resultsCheckingPublished
- Performance tablesCheckingPublished
- CurriculumCheckingPublished
- Behaviour policyCheckingPublished
- SEND information reportCheckingPublished
- Pupil premium strategyCheckingPublished
- PE and sport premiumCheckingPublished
- Charging and remissionsCheckingReview due
- Values and ethosCheckingPublished
- GovernanceCheckingPublished
- Financial informationCheckingPublished
- Complaints procedureCheckingPublished
- Accessibility planCheckingPublished
- Equality objectivesCheckingPublished
An illustration of the kind of check the Schudio software runs, not a real school.
We build what schools actually need.
Every school website we build runs on our own content management system, built in-house since 2012, with everything a school or trust needs tied into it. One login, one team, and no hidden extras.
The Schudio CMS
Built for school staff, not web developers.
If someone in your office can post on social media, they can run your school website. Pages, news, events, letters, calendars, policies and social media feeds, all in one place.
Explore the software
AI Suite · built into the CMS
Create. Check. Answer.
Drafts in your school’s voice, checks what you have published, and answers visitors from your own pages. A person approves everything.
Included in our Always Ready packages and available to add to any Schudio website. Prefer to go without? Every other package works perfectly well without it.
See the AI SuiteMAT Portal
Every school in your trust, in one view.
The MAT Portal
Document Groups
The current version of every policy, always the one on show.
Admissions and recruitment
Student applications, place acceptance and job shortlisting, tied into your website.
Engagement featuresFive free tools, for any school
- Reading Age Checker
- Accessibility Statement Generator
- School Image Resizer
- Clean Word Formatting
- School Domain Lookup
Marketing and engagement
School photography, video, brand and logo design, email newsletters and ParentHub.
What schools say once they’re live.
“I cannot stress the importance of the ‘Always Ready’ culture that Schudio have for their clients and their websites. It really does help and makes content management so much easier when you aren’t overhauling your website in preparation for an inspection.”
“It has made a huge difference to how we communicate with prospective and current families alike.”
“The finished website looks fantastic: modern, professional, easy to navigate and completely bespoke to our school.”
“It feels warm and professional, reflects our bilingual community, and gives families a much clearer picture of school life in both languages.”
“It’s reassuring to know there is always a team at Schudio on hand to help with our queries.”
You get us, not an account manager.
Schudio is owner-run, based in Lancashire, and has worked only in the education sector since 2011. The people who design your website, build the software and answer your calls are the same small team, and they know school websites inside out.
Call us. A person answers.0333 577 0753“It’s reassuring to know there is always a team at Schudio on hand to help with our queries.”
Why we exist
For more than ten years we have partnered with projects in Uganda, helping to build schools and running our own project that provides sanitary products for teenage girls. So far we have raised more than £50,000 for charity.
Our charity projectsStill in contract? You don’t have to wait.
We start designing your new website now, and your annual fee only begins when your current agreement ends. No paying two providers, and no rushed rebuild in the final weeks.
Guides, tools and workshops for school website teams.
Questions schools ask us first.
Something else? Contact us on 0333 577 0753 or send us a message.
What does Schudio do?
Schudio designs, builds and supports websites for UK schools and multi academy trusts. We have worked only with schools since 2011, on our own content management system, with compliance tools, training and support included.
How much does a school website cost?
Primary school website packages start from £475 a year plus VAT, with no setup fee. Secondary schools, sixth form colleges and multi academy trusts usually want a fully bespoke design, so we quote after a short conversation. Hosting, support, training and software updates are included either way.
Do you work with multi academy trusts?
Yes. We design trust websites and the websites of the schools within them, so each school keeps its own identity while the trust gets shared standards and central oversight of compliance through the MAT Portal.
Can we move to Schudio while we are still in contract?
Yes. With The Confident Move we start designing your new website now and begin your annual fee when your existing agreement ends, so you never pay two providers at once. Trusts can phase each school the same way with our Trust Transition Plan.
What makes a good school website?
The best school websites are mobile friendly, show prospective families the school’s unique character, keep news, events and the calendar current, publish the information schools are required to show, and are easy for staff to update. Good design matters, but so does what happens in the years after launch.
Let’s talk about your school’s website.
Book a strategy call and you’ll speak to someone who knows school websites, not a salesperson. Or join a free compliance and strategy workshop first.
