School website design that feels like your school.
School website design for primary schools, secondary schools, sixth forms, special schools and multi academy trusts across the UK, up to fully bespoke. Modern, beautiful on every device, compliant from day one, and run on a content management system your staff will actually enjoy using.
Choose your type of school
Every kind of school needs something different from its website. Start with yours.
01Primary schoolsWarm, welcoming and quick for a busy office to update.Explore primary schools website design
02Secondary schoolsPremium, bespoke design for many audiences at once.Explore secondary schools website design
03Sixth form collegesA website that recruits sixteen year olds.Explore sixth form colleges website design
04Special schoolsCalm, accessible and clear for every family.Explore special schools website design
05Multi academy trustsOne trust, many schools, each with its own identity.Explore multi academy trusts website design
School website design for every kind of school.
A primary school, a secondary school, a sixth form, a special school and a multi academy trust all need something different from their website. Choose yours to see what good school website design looks like for you.
Primary schools
A primary school website for busy parents and one busy office
Primary school websites are read by parents on their phones, between the school run and work, and kept up to date by an office team who already have plenty to do. The design has to be warm and welcoming, and the content management system has to be quick.
- Class pages, letters home and term dates a tap away
- Packages published openly, from £475 a year plus VAT
- A design that shows prospective families real school life
Secondary schools
Premium, bespoke design for many audiences at once
A secondary school website talks to Year 6 families, current parents, students, sixth form applicants and future staff, often on the same day. It needs a confident, premium design and a structure that gives every audience its own route in.
- Bespoke design built from your brand outwards
- Editing rights for every department, without breaking the design
- Admissions, options and careers information that is easy to find
Sixth form colleges
A sixth form website that recruits
Sixth form students choose where to study, so your website is a recruitment tool first. Courses, entry requirements, open evenings and applications should be clear, current and persuasive to sixteen year olds and their parents.
- Course pages that are easy to compare
- Open evening and application details that drive action
- A look and feel that speaks to older students
Special schools
Accessibility done properly, not claimed
Families of children with special educational needs often have more questions, and need clearer answers. A special school website should be calm, accessible and easy to read, with the SEND information families rely on kept current.
- Accessible to WCAG 2.1 AA, with an accessibility statement in place
- A reading age checker to keep letters and pages clear
- Clear routes to the information families need most
Multi academy trusts
One trust, many schools, each with its own identity
A multi academy trust needs a strong central website and a family of school websites that each keep their own character. Central teams need oversight of compliance across every school without doing every school’s job for them.
- A trust website plus individual school websites
- Shared standards with room for each school’s brand
- The MAT Portal for compliance across every school
Why it matters
Families judge a school by its website long before they visit. Good school website design makes that first visit feel like walking through your front door.
School website designs we are proud of.
Primary schools, secondary schools and multi academy trusts we have designed websites for. Keep scrolling and look through each one.
What makes good school website design?
We have designed more than 1,000 school websites for schools across the education sector since 2011. The best ones share five things, whatever the size or phase of the school, and every new website we create is built around them. Here they are, with examples from schools we work with.
Your brand, carried through every page
Good school website design starts with your school’s brand: your school logo, your colours and colour palette, your typography and the way you talk about yourselves. We carry that brand through every page and every template, so the website feels like your school rather than a theme with a logo dropped in. If your brand needs a refresh, we can help with a new logo, brand colours and brand guidelines too.
Yardleys School
Navigation built around real questions
Most visitors arrive with one question. How do I apply? Who do I contact? What’s happening this week? A clear menu, sensible page structure and obvious calls to action mean users can navigate quickly, so prospective parents, current families, students and staff find what they need in a couple of taps.
Bishop Challoner Catholic College
Mobile first design
Most parents read your school website on a mobile. Mobile first design means every page is planned for the small screen first, then scaled up for desktop, so the website is fully responsive on every device and screen size and the menu, news and key pages are easy to use with a thumb. It’s modern school website design, not a desktop layout squeezed down.
Eccleston Primary School
Real photography and video
Stock images are spotted instantly. Real photography of your pupils, your staff, your facilities and your school community, video of a normal day, even drone footage of your site, says more about school life than any slogan. Great photography is what makes a homepage make a family want to visit.
St Bernard’s High School
Accessible, and compliant from launch
School websites fall under the accessibility regulations, so every site we build is accessible to WCAG 2.1 AA and launches with its statutory information in place, audited by our compliance team before it goes live.
Ivy House School
What every school website should include.
Whatever the size or type of school, the same eight things come up again and again when families, students and staff use a school website. Thoughtful school website design plans for all of them from the start, in a clear menu and page structure, so nothing is bolted on later.
A homepage that makes families want to visit
Your homepage is the first impression. It should show real school life, say clearly who you are and give parents quick links to the things they need every week.
About us, your ethos and values
Prospective families want to know what kind of school you are. A good about section tells your story, introduces your leadership and makes your ethos feel real.
Admissions information that is easy to act on
Admissions arrangements, open events, how to apply and key dates, set out clearly, with the statutory detail where families and inspectors expect to find it.
Curriculum pages by subject or year group
What children learn, and how. Curriculum information should be on the page, not hidden in a stack of downloads, and easy for staff to update.
News, events and a school calendar
Regular news and events keep current parents informed and show prospective families a busy, happy school. Staff can publish news in minutes and turn it into social media posts for your school’s social media accounts from the same place.
Key information for parents
Uniform, the school day, absence reporting, the calendar and who to contact: the information parents look for most, always a tap away from the main menu.
Policies and statutory information
Every school must publish certain information. We give it a clear home, kept current with Document Groups and policy review reminders.
Contact details and how to get here
Address, phone number, the right person to contact and a map. Simple, and surprisingly often hard to find on older school websites.
What school website design costs, and what it should include.
School budgets are tight, so the cost of a new school website has to be clear and the value has to last. The real question is not just what the design costs, but what you get for the years after it goes live: hosting, support, training, software updates, new features and help keeping the website compliant. A cheap new website that your team can’t manage is a false economy.
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 for your school after a short conversation, in writing, with no surprises later.
Beautiful design that also keeps your school website compliant.
Every school has to publish certain information on its website, and most school websites are close but not quite there. In the 2,500+ compliance audits we have carried out, the gaps are almost always small things that drifted: a policy past its review date, a governor who has moved on, a document linked from three pages and updated on one.
So compliance is built into every school website we create. Document Groups let you publish a document once and update it everywhere. Policies carry review dates and reminders. Every new website is audited by our compliance team before it goes live, and our clients hear from us every week when something changes.
How school website design differs by type of school.
The same platform, the same support and the same compliance tools sit behind every school website we build. What changes is who the website is for, what it has to do and how bespoke the design needs to be. Here is how that plays out, with a page for each type of school that goes into the detail.
| Type of school | Who reads it most | What matters most | Design | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary schools | Parents of young children, often on a phone | Letters, term dates and class pages a tap away | Ready-designed or fully bespoke | Published packages, from £475 a year |
| Secondary schools | Year 6 families, parents, students and future staff | A clear route in for every audience | Fully bespoke and premium | Quoted for your school |
| Sixth form colleges | Sixteen year olds and their parents | Courses, open evenings and applications | Bespoke, built to recruit | Quoted for your college |
| Special schools | Families of children with SEND | Accessibility, clarity and SEND information | Calm, accessible and bespoke | Quoted for your school |
| Multi academy trusts | Families, staff and trust leaders | Shared standards and central compliance oversight | A trust site plus a site for every school | Quoted for your trust |
Prices are plus VAT.
Behind every school website we design
An intuitive CMS
Our content management system has been built in-house since 2012 for school staff, not web developers. Adding news, a letter home or a calendar date takes minutes, and the person who does it doesn’t need to be technical.
Mobile first and fully responsive
Most parents visit on a phone. Every design is built mobile first, so navigation, menus, forms and documents work as well on a phone or tablet as on a desktop.
Found by search engines
Clean page structure, clear headings and well-optimised images help search engines understand your school, so families searching for you can find your website.
Tools that keep you compliant
Document Groups, policy review reminders and unlimited staff training come with every school website, whichever type of school you are, and the AI Suite is there for any school that wants it.
“The team at Schudio worked in genuine partnership with us to unite our website design with a fresh brand kit and refreshed narrative.”
St George’s School, BlackpoolEvery school we work with has a story behind its website. Read how St George’s School, Mount Carmel and others worked with us, from the first brief to the day they went live.
Schools are all we do, and have been since 2011.
Schudio is an owner-run school website company based in Lancashire. We don’t build websites for shops, charities or law firms in between school projects. Every designer, developer and support specialist here works on school websites every day, which is why we can talk to a head teacher, a business manager or a trust IT lead in their own language.
“It’s reassuring to know there is always a team at Schudio on hand to help with our queries.”
Mount Carmel RC High SchoolFrom first call to launch day, whatever type of school you are.
The school website design process is the same shape for a village primary and a trust of twenty schools. The detail inside each step is what changes.
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Tell us about your school
Primary, secondary, sixth form, special school or trust: we start with who your website is for and what it needs to do for them, and agree a launch date that suits your calendar.
A brief and a date -
See it before it is built
Your homepage and page templates are designed around your logo, colours and pupils. You review them in preview and we refine them together until they feel right.
Sign-off on a design you love -
We move your content
Pages, policies, letters and photos come across from your old website. We tidy as we go and point out anything that has gone out of date.
Nothing lost in the move -
Your team learns it
The staff who will update the site are trained on it first, and we check the required information is in place before the site goes live.
Confident staff, compliant site -
Live, then looked after
Once you are live, the same team answers your calls, keeps the platform current and adds new features through the year, without a new invoice for each one.
Support that doesn’t stop on day one
School website design questions, answered.
Something else on your mind? Call us on 0333 577 0753 or talk to us about your school’s website.
How much does school website design cost?
It depends on the type of school and how bespoke you want to go. 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 for your school after a short conversation. Hosting, support, training and compliance tools are included either way.
How long does a new school website take?
We agree a launch date with you at the start and plan the project around your school calendar, so the busy weeks don’t land on your busiest ones. Most schools launch at the start of a term or before their open events.
What should a school website include?
A strong school website reflects your school’s brand, works beautifully on mobile devices, answers the questions families actually ask, keeps its required information current and is easy for staff to manage. Great school web design is as much about what happens in the years after as how it looks on day one.
Can you keep our school logo and brand colours?
Yes. Every school website design starts from your existing school logo, colours and brand. If your branding needs a refresh, we can help with a new brand kit, logo files and brand guidelines as part of the project, or simply a redesign of an existing website.
Do you design websites for 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.
What happens to the content on our existing website?
We move it. Our content team transfers your existing pages, documents and images to your new site and flags anything that is out of date or broken along the way.
We are still in contract with another provider. Can we move?
Yes. With The Confident Move we can start designing your new website now and begin your annual fee when your existing agreement ends, so you never pay two providers at once.
Ready to talk about your school website design?
Call us or send a message and you’ll speak to someone who knows school websites. Or go straight to the page for your type of school.
