Services · Website development · School websites
Codeeo handles school website development Boston independent, Catholic and charter schools rely on during admissions season and every school day after it. We plan and build sites that explain your program clearly, take open house and tour registrations, publish closures the moment a storm decision is made, read well in the home languages of your families and meet the accessibility standard public and private schools are now held to. Your staff edit the site themselves, without waiting on a developer for every calendar change.
Boston parents compare schools on their phones, often between a commute on the Red Line and a work shift. If your site cannot tell them in a minute how to apply, when the next tour runs and how their child would get to your building, they move on to the next tab.
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What goes into the site
Good school website design Boston families respond to starts with the questions they bring, not with a homepage slider.
A school website in Boston serves very different readers in the same week. A parent in Dorchester wants to know whether your lottery is open. A family relocating for a hospital or university job wants to see tuition policy, financial aid steps and what a school day looks like. Current parents want the snow closure notice and the lunch menu. Your board needs a place to post meeting notices. Teachers want to update their own pages without breaking the layout.
We structure the site around those readers rather than around your org chart. Each section has a clear owner on your staff, a template that keeps it consistent, and a place in the navigation that a first time visitor can find without guessing. These are the parts we most often build for schools in the city.
One section covering how to apply, key dates, entry grades, visit options and what happens after an application is submitted. Open house and tour sessions are listed with capacity, so a full Saturday morning shows as full and the next date is offered. Registrations flow into your admissions inbox or CRM with the grade and source recorded.
Admissions staff see who is coming, for which grade, and how they found you.
For Commonwealth charter schools, a plain explanation of the enrollment lottery, eligibility, waitlist and key deadlines, written in the languages your applicants read. The application link, required documents and lottery date sit together on one page that your enrollment coordinator updates from the CMS each year.
Fewer families miss a lottery because they could not find the form.
A banner your principal or office manager can switch on from a phone at five in the morning when a nor'easter forces a closure or delayed opening. It appears across every page, links to the full notice, and switches off on schedule, so last week's snow day does not linger on the homepage.
The website matches the robocall and the text message every time.
Translated sections for the languages your families actually use, which in Boston often include Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, Vietnamese and Chinese. We set up proper language URLs and a switcher that stays put between pages, and we decide with you which content is professionally translated and which can be machine assisted with review.
Parents who read little English can still apply, register and stay informed.
A page that shows how students reach you: nearby MBTA stops and bus routes, drop off and pickup rules for your street, bike parking and any school bus arrangements. Families moving between neighborhoods such as Jamaica Plain, East Boston or Hyde Park can judge the commute before they visit.
Families picture the daily trip before they commit to a tour.
Charter school boards in Massachusetts are public bodies under the Open Meeting Law, so meeting notices, agendas and approved minutes need a dependable home. We build a governance section with dated postings, an archive by school year and a simple workflow for whoever prepares the board packet.
Notices go up on time and stay easy to find afterward.
For independent and parochial schools, a clear walk through of how tuition, sibling policies and need based aid work, with links to the aid provider you already use. Application forms that ask for financial details are kept off the public site or handled by a secure provider, so the school does not hold more sensitive data than it needs.
Families understand the aid process before they decide not to apply.
A CMS with roles for office staff, division heads, coaches and teachers, each limited to their own sections. The calendar feeds the homepage, news posts carry photo consent checks, and the staff directory updates from one list instead of five copies.
The site stays current because updating it takes minutes.
Technical SEO, fast pages and School structured data so search engines understand your grades, address and contact details. We write program and admissions pages around the questions Boston parents type, such as kindergarten entry, middle school options or schools near a particular T stop, and connect your Google Business Profile so the map listing and the site agree.
More families find you when they search for schools nearby.
Templates built and tested against WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard the federal ADA Title II rule set for public entities, which includes charter schools. Independent schools face similar expectations under Title III. We check color contrast, keyboard use, headings, captions and PDF alternatives, and train editors so new content stays accessible.
Every family can use the site, including parents and students with disabilities.
Who we build for
Schools in Boston come to a new website from different places. Some have a site that a parent volunteer built years ago. Some sit on a school website platform they find rigid. Some have just won a charter or opened a new campus. The starting point changes the scope, so we plan around yours, by video call, with the people who will actually run the site. We also ask what your current site does badly, because the complaints your front office hears every week are usually the clearest brief we will get.
Admissions is competitive and families compare several schools across Greater Boston in the same autumn. We focus on program pages that show real classrooms, a clean application path, visit scheduling and financial aid clarity. Integration with your admissions CRM or student information system is usually part of the first release, so inquiries do not get typed in twice. We also make sure the site tells the story of your teaching through real student work and faculty voices rather than stock photography.
Program clarity and visit booking matter most here.
Parish and archdiocesan schools often share families with the parish and need to speak to both. We build sections for faith life, sacramental preparation where relevant, tuition assistance and registration, with a CMS simple enough for a small office team. Where the school sits inside a wider network, we keep its own voice while respecting shared branding.
Your website has public obligations: lottery information, governance postings, accessible content and family notices in home languages. We plan those first, then build the storytelling that helps families choose you. Multi campus charters get a shared design system with campus level pages that each principal can maintain.
Public body duties come before visual polish.
Tutoring programs, enrichment providers and youth organizations that partner with Boston schools need a site that recruits families, volunteers and funders at once. We give each audience a clear path, an inquiry or signup form that routes to the right coordinator, and pages that make your program results easy to describe without inflated claims.
Ways to work with us
Most Boston schools start with a fixed scope project for the new site, agreed in writing after discovery. Many then keep a small monthly retainer for new sections, accessibility checks and help at the start of each admissions cycle, when new dates, fresh photography and updated aid guidance all need to go up within a few weeks. Larger charter networks sometimes take a dedicated team that also handles family portals or data work. Cost depends on the number of templates, languages, integrations and pages to migrate, so we price each project after we see your current site.
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
We pick the CMS and stack around your staff, your existing systems and who will maintain the site, often WordPress or a headless setup with Next.js, hosted on infrastructure your school controls.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on page count, languages and integrations, and we set dates after discovery.
A small school with a modest site and one language moves faster than a charter network with several campuses, translated sections and a CRM connection. After the discovery calls we write down the page list, integrations and launch window, together with who on your side signs off each stage. We usually plan launch so it does not land in the middle of open house season or the weeks before a lottery, when admissions staff have no time to learn a new CMS.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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