High School Web Design That Grows Admissions

Your high school website is one of your most powerful tools for connecting with your school community and attracting new students.

It’s the first place many prospective parents and students will look when deciding where to apply. A great school web design makes sure they find the right information quickly, feel inspired by your story, and take action. Clear messaging is essential to communicate your school’s mission and values effectively, ensuring visitors immediately understand what sets your institution apart.

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1000+

Website Launched

2500+

Compliance Audits Completed

5000+

Trained Managers

98%

Happiness Rating

4.9

Google Ratings

£50k+

Raised for Charities
We have worked on over 250+ UK Secondary Schools

Why High Schools Need More from Their Website

In the education sector, the pressures on secondary schools have changed. Falling birth rates, shifting catchment areas, and the growth of competitor schools mean your website is no longer just a compliance tool — it’s a marketing engine.

A well-built secondary school website will:

  • Reflect your educational values and unique values.
  • Promote your curriculum, enrichment activities, and sixth form pathways.
  • Make it simple for parents, students, and staff to easily navigate.
  • Present key information about your curriculum, admissions, and community in an accessible way.
  • Showcase your school’s achievements, including academic results and extracurricular successes.
  • Engage the wider community, including families, alumni, and local residents.
  • Appeal to prospective families through intuitive navigation, engaging visuals, and storytelling techniques.
  • Highlight school events and achievements.
  • Perform well in search engines through a clear SEO strategy.

The best school websites combine strong branding, great design features, and practical functionality to serve the whole school community.

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Why Choose Schudio for Your New School Web Design

We understand the realities of managing a school website. Your team is busy, your teachers are focused on students, and your site needs to be quick to update. That’s why we build every new school website design on our secure content management system, giving you:

  • Easy content management for non-technical users.
  • Responsive layouts that adapt to any screen size.
  • Seamlessly integrated tools for galleries, events, and forms.
  • Built-in compliance tools to reduce admin time.
  • Full training for your team, plus ongoing support.
  • Full training for your team, plus ongoing support.

Our friendly team is committed to supporting you every step of the way, ensuring a smooth and positive experience from start to finish.

Our designers and development team work together to deliver beautiful websites that are designed specifically for your audience and goals, while supporting schools beyond launch with ongoing advice and resources.

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Common Mistakes in School Website Design — and How We Avoid Them

When we review older school websites, we often see:

  • Outdated branding – not following the latest brand guidelines.
  • Cluttered navigation – too many links, making it hard for visitors to easily navigate.
  • Weak mobile layouts – not truly responsive, leading to poor user experience on small screen sizes.
  • Poor SEO – no clear SEO strategy, hurting search engine rankings.
  • Lack of calls-to-action – missing opportunities to encourage applications or visits.
  • Lack of clean design – cluttered appearance makes it difficult for users to focus on key content and can reduce overall professionalism.

Our approach fixes these issues from the start. Every school web we create is accessible, easy to update, and optimised for both search engines and real people. We use intuitive navigation and clean design features that guide users to important content and actions, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience.

Two Design Routes to Suit Your Goals

Feature Flexible Bespoke-Ready Fully Bespoke
Approach Customise from our high-performing layouts and design features within our content management system, building school websites that incorporate key elements and key features tailored to your school. Ground-up website design by our designers and development team, building school websites in close partnership with you, focusing on key elements and key features that reflect your unique school community.
Marketing Support Access to monthly marketing workshops for ideas and tools. In-project marketing strategy sessions, admissions planning, content advice, plus all workshop access.
Best for Schools wanting a new website quickly and cost-effectively. Schools seeking a unique school website design with deeper strategic collaboration.
One-off Cost Included in package +One-Off Fee
Delivery Time Faster turnaround Longer design phase for full creative process

💡 Not sure which is right for you? Talk to our team – we’ll guide you through the options.

Included in Every Project

All our school websites include:

  • Fully responsive web design for all screen sizes.
  • Integration of your branding and brand guidelines.
  • Easy content management so your team can add new pages, update news, and promote school events.
  • Dynamic content features such as news, blogs, and multimedia updates to keep your website engaging and current.
  • Interactive elements like filters, multimedia hotspots, and dynamic content sections to enhance user engagement and navigation.
  • The website serves as a central hub for all communication, engagement activities, and school resources.
  • Compliance support with Policy Manager.
  • Training for your team on the content management system.
  • Ongoing access to marketing workshops and compliance courses.
  • UK-based ongoing support for technical and content queries.

Extra with Fully Bespoke

Choosing full bespoke gives you:

  • Admissions Journey Mapping – Structuring pages to guide visitors to apply or enquire.
  • Content Planning – Aligning curriculum and sixth form areas with your school’s audience.
  • SEO Strategy Input – Boosting search engine rankings during the build.
  • Creative Collaboration – Unique design features that reflect your unique values.
  • Creating visual storytelling experiences – Using vibrant imagery, high-impact visuals, and immersive design to showcase school life and values.

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Design Features That Work for High Schools

For your audience:

  • User friendly navigation for parents, students, and staff.
  • Curriculum pages with clear pathways and downloadable resources.
  • A dedicated sixth form section with its own style.
  • Filterable school events calendar.
  • Fully responsive layouts for all screen sizes.

For your audience:

  • Simple easy content management tools.
  • Document management with expiry reminders.
  • Seamlessly integrated forms for enquiries and bookings.

Our Values Define Us

We’re honest, supportive, knowledgeable, friendly, and innovative. These values drive everything we do, from supporting our clients to expanding our knowledge and providing the best possible solutions, including the strategic initiative of creating a new school website design.

What’s more, we partner with projects in Uganda and join forces with as many schools as possible so we can make a huge difference. We are part of building schools for children in some of the poorest areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Our passion is to change lives through the work we do. To achieve this, we offer exceptional website products and services so that we are able to do more and more work with those in desperate need.

Honest

We always act in a way that shows integrity and honesty in all we do. Whether supporting clients, partners or our colleagues, we conduct ourselves with the utmost integrity.

Supportive & Knowledgable

We strive to continually expand our knowledge and then work hard to pass on that knowledge to those we work with. We set and maintain the highest possible standards of support so that our clients never feel left behind.

Friendly

Clients, partners and colleagues always find us approachable and friendly, warm and kind. We do what we say we will do and we are always giving in our approach.

Innovative

We continually push the boundaries and strive to provide the best possible solutions to make life in school easier. We create our own with the express aim of only offering the very best possible solutions.

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FAQ

Most Popular Questions

We understand you may have questions about our secondary school website design service. Check out our FAQ section for answers to common queries.

Your domain is the address your website can be accessed from, make sure you have a plan for your domain before your site is ready to go live to ensure there’s no unnecessary delay.
Usually the best domain for your new website is the one already in use.

To use the same web address for your new website you will need to get in contact with the current administrator of your domain.
When ready to go live we’ll send some A records to update in your domain DNS settings.
Your current administrator should be able to advise you who to contact to make the required changes to put your new website live.

If you are having trouble identifying who administers your domain, please get in touch and we will try and help. (It could be your local authority, a private company or someone at school).

If your current administrator no longer wants to administer your domain, or you want to transfer that responsibility away from them you can do it yourself, or we can do it for you (additional charges apply for Schudio to manage your domain).

If you want to setup a new domain, that’s also an option, although we’d suggest only doing this if your current domain is irretrievable.

Check Our Blog for more information about domains:
https://www.schudio.com/learn/managing-domain-names-school-website/

https://www.schudio.com/school-domain-names-everything-you-need-to-know/

All invoices are payable on 30 day terms from date of invoice. Invoices are generated when we begin work on your project.

Any recurring or annual fees will also be due 30 days from date of invoice. This invoice date will be on the anniversary of the initial invoice date.

Should your account fall into arrears action may be taken to suspend your account.

We require 30 days notice before the renewal date of a contract to cancel a subscription. Accounts which are signed up for 3 years are required to run for the full 3 year period.

Most payments are received via bank transfer, some payments are received via cheque.
If you need to pay using another method please get in touch.

Support & Hosting Payment
This payment covers the ongoing support for the use of your website.
We provide a comprehensive knowledge base to answer the most common questions, and a support system with multiple levels of impact each with specific response and resolution times.
Full details are outlined in the Schudio service level agreement.
This payment is also for making your site available to access on the web. The hosting of the Schudio CMS (Content Management System) used to manage your site and all of your files
It also includes the management of your bandwidth (traffic) and webspace (storage), so you will not reach a limit with visitors unable to access your website.

Package Payments
Your package payment is for continued use of the the licence of the software that runs the package. Package payments are payable in line with your package contract, usually every 1 or 3 years.
A school website package payment also includes the design element of the site, so when any subsequent package payments are due you will also be eligible for a design update.

We would recommend publicising it to your parents through your school website an also possibly mentioning it in a newsletter that you send out to them.
If you have signed up for a Schudio school website then you could try to time this publicity with the launch of your new website.

On every page on the site there is a button in the bottom left of the screen.

Contact Support

This is the very best way of getting in touch with us if you have a problem. When you click it a small popup box appears next to it.
Type your support request into the box and click the magnifying class or hit ‘Enter’.

At the next stage the pop-up will show any support articles that might match the entered query. Hopefully one of these support articles can answer your question right away. Clicking the relevant article will load it within the pop-up box.

If the articles aren’t quite what you’re looking for then you can always send a message using the button at the bottom.
A very simple form with 3 fields. Subject, How can we help you? and an option to attach a file.

Knowledge Base

This is where supporting documentation and helpful articles on using your Schudio product can be found.
The knowledge base has articles covering more general topics, but also covers the specifics of a product. We would always recommend reading the relevant articles in the knowledge base as a first port of call if you ever get stuck. These are the same articles displayed within the support widget and can be viewed within the widget, or via the separate knowledge base webpage.

If you are unable to raise a support request using the in system button you can send an email to su*****@*****io.com.
Using the contact support buttons helps us to identify and solve any problems faster so please do use them if you need help.

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