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K-12 Education
Multi-Site District HubTeacher & Parent PortalsADA/WCAG Compliant

K-12 School District Website Platform

Your 45 Schools Share One Build — Or They Break IT Every Week

$135-360K/yr
Finalsite Cost
Recurring license for 45-school district
$60-100K
One-Time Build
Next.js platform replacing Finalsite -- break-even in 3-6 months
$45/mo
Hosting Cost
Vercel + Supabase for 50-school district
1 App
Architecture
45 school sites from one Next.js codebase + Supabase RLS
What Your District Actually Gets — And What Finally Stops Breaking

Your district homepage goes live. A parent lands on the elementary school page. A teacher edits her class schedule. A bus route updates across three languages. All of it fires from one Next.js application—not 45 separate WordPress installs fighting over plugins. Your IT team manages one security surface, one brand system, one deploy. Teachers update their own pages through role-scoped dashboards. Parents filter lunch menus and bus schedules by school and day on their phones. Board meeting agendas publish with searchable PDFs that meet ADA requirements. Adding a new school means adding a database row—not spinning up another site for your two-person IT team to patch and pray over every Tuesday.

Wo Projekte scheitern

Your 2-person IT team is spending 20+ hours a week on WordPress Multisite maintenance — updates, plugin conflicts, broken themes spread across 45 sites Staff burn out. Security holes pile up on every school site that hasn't been patched yet.
Teachers stopped requesting page updates because tickets sit for 3 weeks before IT gets to them Class info goes stale, parents stop checking the site, and teachers end up scattered across Google Docs trying to fill the gap.
Your district site scores a 38 on Lighthouse mobile Parents can't find bus schedules, lunch menus, or snow day alerts on their phones. They miss critical info, call the front office instead, and prospective families notice.
ADA/WCAG compliance is all over the place because every school runs different themes and plugins K-12 ADA lawsuits are picking up — one inaccessible page on any school site creates district-wide legal exposure.
Finalsite charges $3–8K per school per year Across 45 schools, that's $135–360K annually for a platform you don't own. Multi-year contracts lock you in, costs go up automatically every year, and you're essentially renting your own content back from them.
30% of your district families speak a language other than English, but your site is English-only Federal Title III requirements go unmet. Those families disengage, and they don't come back.

Compliance

District Hub + School Microsites

One Next.js application handles the district homepage and 45+ school pages through /schools/[name] routing. Superintendent message, board meetings, enrollment, employment, and news live at the district level. Principal message, staff directory, calendar, lunch menu, and PTA info live at the school level. One deployment. One brand system.

Teacher Self-Service Portal

Teachers log in and edit their own class page — syllabus, homework, announcements, resources — without touching IT. Supabase Auth with Row Level Security means a teacher sees only their class, a principal sees their whole school, and district admin sees everything.

Parent Portal with SSO

Parents log in once and get their child's school, upcoming events, cafeteria menu, bus route, and teacher contact info. Single sign-on ties into your existing SIS for grades and attendance. One login covers the whole district, no matter how many schools their kids attend.

ADA/WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance

Semantic HTML, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, and focus management are baked into every component. One codebase enforces compliance everywhere — not left to 45 separate WordPress themes each drifting in their own direction.

Multi-Language Translation Engine

i18n support for 3–10 languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali, and more. Batch translation runs about $22 per language — your entire district in 5 languages for $110. WPML costs $199/year plus ongoing per-page translation on top of that.

Event Calendar + Emergency Alerts

District-wide and school-specific events with filters by school and type — academic, sports, arts, PTA, board meetings. RSVP functionality built in. Push notifications for closures, snow days, and emergencies go out instantly.

Was wir bauen

Stop burning 20+ hours weekly patching 45 separate WordPress sites with conflicting plugins and broken themes

Deploy 45 schools from one Next.js codebase—adding a school takes one database row, not another site build

End the 3-week ticket backlog where teacher page requests pile up and class info goes stale

Give teachers, principals, and district admins role-based dashboards enforced at the database level with Supabase RLS

Fix the mobile disaster—your district site scores 38 on Lighthouse and parents can't find snow day alerts on their phones

Let parents search staff by school, department, and role—plus apply for open teaching positions through structured forms

Close the ADA compliance gaps scattered across 45 school sites running different themes before the lawsuits arrive

Generate school pages statically at build time with sub-second loads and ISR revalidation during enrollment season

Break the Finalsite lock-in costing your district $135–360K annually to rent back your own content

Publish filterable lunch menus and bus routes that work on phones—no more PDFs that break on mobile screens

Serve the 30% of families who don't speak English and stop missing federal Title III requirements

Meet public records requirements with board meeting agendas, searchable minutes archives, and accessible live stream links

Unser Prozess

01

District Discovery & Content Audit

We audit every existing school site, map content types, identify role requirements, catalog languages, and document SIS/SSO integration points. You get a full architecture spec and content migration plan before we write a line of code.
Weeks 1-2
02

Platform Architecture & Design System

We build the district brand system — typography, colors, component library — and the database schema for schools, staff, events, and class pages. Supabase Auth and RLS policies get defined and tested. You approve everything in Figma before we move on.
Weeks 3-5
03

Core Platform Build

District hub, school microsites, teacher portal, parent portal, event calendar, staff directory, and multi-language support get built and deployed to staging. Each school gets its localized content structure set up.
Weeks 6-10
04

Content Migration & Training

We migrate content from WordPress Multisite or Finalsite into the new platform. Teachers and office staff get hands-on training — editing class pages, posting events, updating menus. Principals learn their school dashboard.
Weeks 11-13
05

Launch & Post-Launch Support

DNS cutover, 301 redirects from old URLs, a Lighthouse audit across every school page, and 30 days of post-launch support. We watch performance, handle edge cases, and make sure every school page hits 95+ on accessibility.
Week 14+
Next.jsSupabaseVercelTailwind CSSnext-intlSupabase AuthRow Level SecurityPostgreSQLResendVercel Analytics

Häufige Fragen

Wie ersetzt dies WordPress Multisite für einen Schulbezirk?

WordPress Multisite gibt jeder Schule ihre eigene Installation — ihr eigenes Theme, Plugins und Wartungsproblem. Diese Plattform führt eine einzelne Next.js-Anwendung mit dynamischem Routing aus. Das Hinzufügen einer Schule bedeutet das Hinzufügen einer Datenbankzeile, nicht das Einrichten einer neuen Site. Ein Codebase zum Verwalten, eine Sicherheitsoberfläche zum Überwachen, eine Bereitstellung, die Updates an alle 45+ Schulen gleichzeitig pusht.

Können Lehrer wirklich ihre eigenen Klassenseiten aktualisieren, ohne IT-Hilfe?

Ja. Lehrer melden sich bei einer unkomplizierten Bearbeitungsoberfläche an, auf der sie nur ihre zugewiesene Klassenseite sehen. Sie können ihr Syllabus aktualisieren, Hausaufgaben posten, Ankündigungen teilen und Ressourcen hochladen. Supabase Row Level Security erzwingt dies auf Datenbankebene — ein Lehrer kann den Inhalt eines anderen Lehrers wörtlich nicht sehen oder bearbeiten. Schulleiter können alle Klassenseiten innerhalb ihrer Schule überprüfen.

Wie funktioniert die mehrsprachige Übersetzung und was kostet sie?

Wir verwenden next-intl für Internationalisierungsrouting und übersetzen dann Inhalte per Batch-Verarbeitung mit KI-Übersetzungsdiensten für etwa $22 pro Sprache. Ein 5-Sprachen-Bezirk — Englisch, Spanisch, Mandarin, Vietnamesisch, Arabisch — kostet etwa $110 für die initiale Übersetzung. Neue Inhalte werden automatisch übersetzt. WPML kostet $199/Jahr, zuzüglich manueller Übersetzungsgebühren pro Seite obendrauf.

Was ist mit ADA-Konformität auf allen Schulseiten?

Jede Schulseite teilt sich dieselbe Komponentenbibliothek, daher ist die ADA/WCAG 2.1 AA-Konformität durch die Architektur selbst durchgesetzt. Semantisches HTML, ARIA-Attribute, Tastaturnavigation und Fokusmanagement sind einmalig in jede Komponente eingebaut und überall angewendet. WordPress Multisite lässt jede Schule in ihren eigenen Konformitätszustand driften. Dieser Ansatz liefert konsistente Lighthouse-Barrierefreiheitswerte von 95+ auf jeder Website.

Wie lange dauert die Migration von Finalsite oder WordPress?

Ein typischer 45-Schulen-Bezirk geht von Kickoff bis Launch in 13–14 Wochen. Die Inhaltsmigration von WordPress oder Finalsite wird programmatisch durchgeführt — wir extrahieren strukturierten Inhalt von Ihrer bestehenden Plattform, ordnen ihn dem neuen Schema zu und importieren ihn per Bulk. Die Mitarbeiterschulung läuft in den Wochen 11–13, damit Ihr Team vor dem Go-Live bereit ist.

Was kostet Hosting und Wartung nach dem Launch?

Hosting auf Vercel kostet etwa $45/Monat für den gesamten Bezirk. Statische Generierung hält die Rechenleistung minimal, auch wenn die Anmeldesaison den Verkehr überfordert. Keine Pro-Schule-Lizenzierung, keine jährlichen Verträge, keine Plugin-Update-Zyklen. Sie besitzen die Plattform. Ihr Personal kümmert sich um laufende Inhaltsaktualierungen über die integrierten Portale.

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