Services · Website development · Education websites
Codeeo handles education website development London schools, colleges and training providers can hand straight to their admissions and marketing staff. We plan, design and build the public site: prospectus pages, open event registration, admissions enquiries, statutory information, news and term dates, all edited by your own team. In a city where parents compare several schools at once, read in many languages and expect answers on a phone between commutes, the website is usually the first place a decision starts or stalls.
This page is about the website itself: content, search visibility, enquiries and compliance. Our team works with London clients remotely, so discovery, design reviews and training all run by video call, with every decision written down and shared.
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What the site includes
A London parent might shortlist an independent prep school in Wandsworth, a state academy near home and a sixth form college across two boroughs, all in the same fortnight. They open each website looking for the same things: what makes the school different, when they can visit, what entry involves and how to ask a question without phoning reception. Staff, meanwhile, need to update term dates, publish an Ofsted report or post a news story without waiting for an agency. The capabilities below are the ones we plan most often for London providers. We choose the set for your school during discovery, because a nursery with one site needs far less than a college running adult evening courses in three buildings.
Separate routes for each way a child joins you, such as Reception, 7+, 11+, 13+ or sixth form, each with its own timeline, assessment notes, bursary signposting and enquiry form. Families stop reading content that does not apply to them, and your registrar receives enquiries already tagged by year group.
Every enquiry lands with the entry point it belongs to.
Open mornings, taster days and sixth form evenings listed with capacity limits, confirmation emails and calendar files. You can close an event when it fills and offer a waiting list. Attendance data flows into the admissions record so follow up is based on who actually came.
Fewer phone calls about places and a clean list for each event.
One clearly labelled area for the information state schools in England must publish online, such as the latest Ofsted report, performance measures, curriculum, behaviour and SEND policies, pupil premium and governance. Each item carries a review date so staff can see what is out of date before an inspector does.
Required information is easy to find and simple to keep current.
For independent schools and private colleges, fees presented with VAT shown clearly, compulsory extras listed up front and optional costs kept separate. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 rules on drip pricing are in force, so mandatory charges belong in the headline figure rather than further down the page.
Parents see the total before they enquire, not after.
Admissions, contact and safeguarding pages available in the languages your families use most, planned with proper layouts for right to left scripts where needed. We recommend human translation for anything with legal weight and mark which pages are translated so parents know where the English version is authoritative. Language switching sits in the header, so a parent never has to hunt for it.
Families who read English as a second language reach the right page.
A visible route to your designated safeguarding lead, your child protection policy and reporting guidance, separated from general enquiries. Forms that could carry sensitive detail go to restricted inboxes rather than the shared office address, and nothing personal is stored in analytics tools.
Concerns reach the right person without passing through general mail.
A content management system set up with reusable blocks for news, events, galleries and policies, so your office manager can publish without touching code. Roles control who can draft, approve and publish, which matters when several departments contribute.
Updates go live the same day by the people who own them.
A single source for term dates, INSET days, closures and uniform or transport notices, published once and shown wherever it is relevant: the homepage, the parents' section and downloadable calendar files. When snow, a strike or a burst pipe closes a site, an urgent banner goes live from one setting and comes down just as easily. Older notices archive themselves after a set date.
Parents check the website first instead of ringing the office.
Technical SEO, structured data for your school as an organisation, accurate Google Business Profile details and course pages written around how parents and adult learners search. For colleges with several centres, each site gets its own location page with travel information and nearby stations.
The school appears when families search for their area, not just its name.
Designs built to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested with keyboards and screen readers, with readable contrast and captions on video. Colleges and other public bodies also need an accessibility statement, which we draft with you. The Equality Act duty to make reasonable adjustments applies to every provider.
Parents and learners with disabilities can use every page.
Who this is for
London education is unusually varied: selective independent schools, large academy trusts, specialist colleges and small tutoring firms often compete for attention from the same families. Each one needs a different site, and good education website design London parents trust looks different for a reception class than for an adult evening course. These are the starting points we see most, and what changes in the plan for each.
Your registrar handles enquiries for different ages, many from families relocating to London or living overseas. The site needs strong storytelling about the school, clear routes per entry point, assessment and registration information, and fees shown with VAT. We often connect enquiry forms to an admissions system so nothing is retyped and each family gets the right follow up.
International families often find you months before they arrive.
You need a site that meets the publishing requirements for schools in England, signposts the local authority coordinated admissions process and gives parents a calm, honest picture of school life. For trusts, we build a shared design system so each school keeps its identity while the trust controls policies and branding centrally.
Course pages carry most of the weight: entry requirements, progression, timetable patterns and funding eligibility for adults, including the Adult Skills Fund support the Greater London Authority oversees. We structure course data so it can be filtered by subject, level and study mode, and fed into prospectus exports. Adult learners often search late in the evening on a phone, so the apply or enquire button stays visible on every course page, and each course shows where it runs and which stations are nearby.
Your customers compare quickly and leave quickly. The site needs clear course formats, levels, locations and an enquiry route that works in one thumb. If you take bookings or deposits online, the Consumer Contracts Regulations give buyers cancellation rights, and we make sure the wording and confirmation emails explain them properly.
Taking full payments online is a separate ecommerce build.
How we work together
Most schools commission a fixed scope rebuild, agreed in writing after discovery, then keep a small monthly support arrangement for updates, security patches and seasonal pages. Trusts and colleges with steady development needs sometimes take a dedicated team instead. Custom education website development London trusts commission often grows in stages: one flagship school first, then the others on the same templates. In every case the scope, deliverables and responsibilities are written down before work starts, and you keep full access to your accounts throughout, so you are never waiting on us to make a change yourself.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Usually WordPress or a headless CMS with a Next.js front end, chosen for how many editors you have, how often content changes and what your IT team is comfortable supporting after handover.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on page count, content readiness and integrations.
A single school with content largely ready moves faster than a college with hundreds of course pages or a trust with several schools. The slowest part is almost always content: photography, policy reviews and sign off from senior leaders. We set the plan after discovery and work backwards from dates that matter to you, such as open events or the start of an admissions round, so the new site is never launching in the middle of one. If an inspection or a leadership change lands mid project, we adjust the order of work rather than the quality of it.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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