Services · Website development · School websites
Codeeo provides school website development New York charter schools, independent schools and religious schools use to compete for families across the five boroughs. We build sites that make your program easy to understand in a crowded admissions season, publish the privacy documents Education Law 2-d expects from charter schools, post board notices under the Open Meetings Law, and reach families in the languages they read at home. Your own staff keep it current through a CMS planned around their roles.
A New York family may weigh a dozen schools in one autumn, often from a phone on the subway. The school whose site explains its model, its admissions steps and its location in a few clear screens gets the tour. A site that hides dates in PDFs or works only in English loses that family to the next school on the list.
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Inside the website
School choice in New York City is a season of its own. Families research public options through the city's admissions system while also looking at charter lotteries and independent schools, and they compare all of them at once. Your website is often the first and longest look a parent gets at your school before a tour, and it has to hold up next to schools with large communications teams.
It also carries obligations. Charter schools are educational agencies under Education Law 2-d and public bodies for open meetings purposes. Independent schools hold personal data that the SHIELD Act expects them to protect. Every school serves families who read Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Russian, Haitian Creole, Arabic or Urdu at home. We plan these demands into the site from the first call, then build the pages that sell your school. The list below is a menu rather than a fixed package; we pick and order the parts with you during discovery.
A section that walks a family through your entry grades, application steps and dates for the coming year, alongside how your process relates to the city admissions calendar. Tour sessions, information nights and shadow days are listed with capacity and a registration form that feeds your admissions CRM.
Families know exactly what to do next and by when.
Charter schools get a lottery page that explains eligibility, any preferences your charter allows, the application link and the lottery date, in every language you publish. Your enrollment team updates dates each year without touching the design, and an archive keeps past lottery notices on record if your authorizer asks for them.
More complete applications before the deadline.
Charter schools must post the Parents' Bill of Rights for Data Privacy and Security and their data privacy and security policy on their website, and share supplemental information about third party contracts. We give these documents a permanent, accessible home linked from every page footer.
Required privacy information is easy for families to find.
Charter school boards in New York follow the Open Meetings Law. We build a board section with meeting dates, notices, agendas, documents and minutes by school year, posted by your board secretary from the CMS without developer help.
Board materials go up on time and stay archived.
Translated sections with clean URLs and a language switcher that keeps families on the same page when they change language. We agree with you which pages are translated professionally, which are reviewed by bilingual staff and how new content gets translated before it goes live.
Families who do not read English can still compare and apply.
Directions by subway line and bus route, drop off rules for your block, building entrances and accessible entry points. Schools sharing a building with another school get clear signage notes, so visitors find the right door and the right floor on tour day. For networks, each campus gets its own location page with the borough and neighborhood named clearly, such as the South Bronx, Bushwick or Jamaica in Queens.
Families judge the daily commute before they visit.
A site wide alert staff can publish from a phone when weather or a building issue changes the day, including a switch to remote instruction. Alerts expire automatically and show in each published language.
The website agrees with the text message every time.
Program pages, faculty profiles and student work that show how your school teaches, written and photographed with consent tracked in the CMS. We avoid generic stock images that make every New York school look the same, and we give each program a page that answers what a parent would ask on a tour.
Your model is clear in the first scroll.
Inquiry and event forms collect only what admissions needs. Where an independent school handles private information such as financial account details, we route it to a secure provider and keep it off the website database, which supports the reasonable safeguards the SHIELD Act asks for.
Less sensitive data held means less to protect.
Pages built against WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard named in the federal ADA Title II rule for public entities including charter schools, and tested on older phones over mobile data, including underground where signal drops. Editors learn to add alt text, captions and accessible documents, and we replace image only PDFs with real pages.
Every parent can use the site, on any device.
Who we work with
A New York school website project usually starts from one of these positions. Each needs a different first release, and we plan it by video call with the staff who will own the site day to day, not only with leadership. We also look at where inquiries come from today, which pages families actually read and which forms fail on a phone, because those details shape the scope more than any design trend.
Your site has to carry Education Law 2-d documents, Open Meetings Law postings, lottery pages and translated notices before it does anything else. We build those as structured CMS sections, then add campus pages for each building with its own principal, schedule and directions. Network wide alerts and shared policies are managed in one place, while each principal edits only their own campus. For networks that opened buildings at different times, we also tidy years of inconsistent page names so families can compare campuses side by side.
Public duties are planned first.
Admissions is selective and families compare you with schools across Manhattan, Brooklyn and beyond. We focus on a distinctive program story, a smooth inquiry and visit path, tuition and financial aid guidance without figures on the page, and connection to your admissions CRM. Advancement pages for alumni and parents can follow in a later phase. We pay close attention to photography direction and writing voice, since independent school sites in the city often look interchangeable and families notice the difference quickly.
Admissions storytelling leads.
Many religious schools serve close communities who share news by word of mouth. The website still matters for new families, for funders and for staff recruitment. We build clear sections for school life, registration and events, with language versions where your families need them and a CMS a small office can run. Where religious observance affects the calendar, we build the calendar and alert tools around your own schedule, not a generic school year template.
Organizations running after school, college access or literacy programs with New York schools need a site that recruits students, partner schools, volunteers and donors. We give each audience a path, route inquiries by borough and program, and help you describe your work accurately for funders. Program finders by borough and grade help a parent or counselor see in seconds whether your program serves their school, and a partner page explains how principals can bring you in.
Working together
Most New York schools begin with a fixed scope build agreed after discovery, then keep a monthly care plan for updates, accessibility checks and admissions season support. Larger networks sometimes take a dedicated team for ongoing work across campuses. Cost depends on the number of templates, campuses, languages and integrations, how many pages we migrate and how much writing and photography direction you want from us, so we quote after reviewing your current site. The quote lists every template and integration by name, which makes it straightforward for your board or finance committee to approve.
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 choose the CMS and hosting around your editors and existing systems, often WordPress or a headless Next.js build, with every account registered to the school.
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It depends on scope, and we fix dates after discovery.
A single school with one language and a modest page count is quicker than a network with several campuses, translated sections and CRM integration. After discovery we write down the page list, integrations, sign off points and launch window. We place launch away from your application deadline and the busiest weeks of the city admissions calendar, so admissions staff are not learning a new CMS while families are calling. Content writing and translation are usually the slowest steps, so we agree early who drafts and approves each section.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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