Website design and hosting for schools
A school website that loads fast, stays secure, and helps families enroll.
Web Hosting for Schools is a School Success service for private, charter, Christian, Montessori, and homeschool programs. We design, host, and support websites your staff can update without calling IT, and your prospective families can actually use on their phones.
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Why it matters
Your website is usually a family's first visit
Slow, dated sites lose families
A parent researching schools on their phone in a pickup line will not wait for a heavy page to load.
Security and trust
A browser warning or a hacked page is the fastest way to lose a parent's confidence. Schools need SSL, updates, and backups handled.
Staff can't update it
When only one person (or an outside vendor) can change the calendar, the site goes stale and families notice.
Accessibility gets overlooked
Families and students with disabilities deserve a site they can use. Accessibility is part of serving your whole community, and it matters for ADA expectations.
What's included
Design, hosting, and support in one place
Fast, modern hosting
Lightweight pages and solid hosting so your site loads quickly on phones and laptops.
Security and SSL
SSL certificates, software updates, and security monitoring handled for you.
Backups
Regular backups so a mistake or a problem never means starting over.
Mobile first design
Built for the phone first, because that is where most parents start looking.
Easy staff editing
Simple editing so office staff can update news, calendars, and forms with a little training from us.
Enrollment focused pages
Clear paths to inquire, schedule a tour, and apply, plus pages for tuition or lottery info, programs, and FAQs.
Accessibility minded
We design with accessibility in mind, including contrast, headings, alt text, and keyboard navigation, and help you keep it that way as content grows.
SEO foundations
Clean structure and local search basics so families can find you, with room to grow into full SEO with School Success.
Real people for support
Questions and fixes handled by the School Success team, people who work with schools every day.
Our process
From your current site to a better one
Whether you are on an old template, a site a parent volunteer built years ago, or something in between, we make the move painless.
Free website and enrollment call
We look at your current site, what staff need to edit, and where families get stuck.
Plan and design
A design that fits your school's brand, with enrollment pages planned from the start.
Build, move, and launch
We build the new site, move your content, set up SSL and backups, and launch.
Train and support
We show your staff how to edit and stay on hand for ongoing support.
Who is behind this
A School Success program
School Success is a marketing agency that works only with schools: private, charter, Christian, Montessori, classical, and more. We help schools get in front of the families they are looking for and turn interest into enrollment. Website development and support are a core part of what School Success does for schools, along with Zenrollment tools for enrollment follow up.
Beyond client work, School Success runs the School Marketing Team (SMT) program that teaches students to market their own school, the weekly School Success Report, the School Success Podcast, and a free private Facebook community for school leaders.
What School Success does for schools
- Enrollment marketing strategy
- Website design, development, and support
- SEO and paid ads
- Social media and content
- Email marketing and enrollment follow up through Zenrollment
- Analytics and reporting you can actually read
Questions
Frequently asked
Can you move our existing website?
Yes. We can move and rebuild your existing content so nothing important gets lost.
Will our staff be able to edit the site?
Yes. Easy editing is a priority, and we train your team so they feel confident.
Is the site accessible and ADA friendly?
We design and build with accessibility in mind and follow widely used accessibility guidelines. No website can promise perfect compliance forever, but we help you start strong and stay on track.
What about uptime and security?
We use reliable hosting, SSL, updates, and regular backups. We are happy to walk through the details on a call.
What does it cost?
It depends on the size of your site and what you need. We will talk through options on the call.
Free enrollment strategy call
Let's look at your website together
Tell us about your school and what is frustrating about your current site. We will come ready with ideas.