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

K-12 School District Website Platform

Uw 45 scholen delen één build — of uw IT-afdeling breekt wekelijks

$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.

Waar projecten falen

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.

Wat we bouwen

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

Ons proces

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

Veelgestelde vragen

Hoe vervangt dit WordPress Multisite voor een schooldistrict?

WordPress Multisite geeft elke school zijn eigen installatie — eigen thema, plugins en onderhoudsproblemen. Dit platform draait één Next.js-applicatie met dynamische routing. Een school toevoegen betekent een databaserij toevoegen, niet een nieuwe site starten. Één codebase om te onderhouden, één beveiligingsoppervlak om te bewaken, één implementatie die updates naar alle 45+ scholen tegelijk pusht.

Kunnen docenten echt hun eigen klassenpagina's bijwerken zonder IT-hulp?

Ja. Docenten loggen in op een eenvoudige bewerkingsinterface waar zij alleen hun toegewezen klassenpagina zien. Zij kunnen hun syllabus bijwerken, huiswerk posten, mededelingen delen en resources uploaden. Supabase Row Level Security dwingt dit af op databaseniveau — een docent kan letterlijk inhoud van andere docenten niet zien of bewerken. Schoolleiders kunnen alle klassenpagina's binnen hun school controleren.

Hoe werkt de meertalige vertaling en wat kost het?

Wij gebruiken next-intl voor internationalisatieroutering en vertalen inhoud vervolgens in bulk met AI-vertalingsservices voor ongeveer $22 per taal. Een district met 5 talen — Engels, Spaans, Mandarijn, Vietnamees, Arabisch — kost ongeveer $110 voor de initiële vertaling. Nieuwe inhoud wordt automatisch vertaald. WPML kost $199/jaar, plus handmatige vertalingskosten per pagina bovenop.

Wat zit er in de ADA-compliance voor alle schoolsites?

Elke schoolpagina deelt dezelfde componentbibliotheek, dus ADA/WCAG 2.1 AA-compliance wordt door de architectuur zelf afgedwongen. Semantische HTML, ARIA-attributen, toetsenbordnavigatie en focusbeheer zijn eenmaal in elke component ingebouwd en overal toegepast. WordPress Multisite laat elke school in zijn eigen compliancestand afdrijven. Deze aanpak levert consistente Lighthouse-toegankelijkheidsscores van 95+ op alle sites op.

Hoe lang duurt migratie van Finalsite of WordPress?

Een typisch district met 45 scholen gaat van kickoff naar lancering in 13–14 weken. Inhoudsmigratie van WordPress of Finalsite wordt programmatisch afgehandeld — wij extraheren gestructureerde inhoud uit uw bestaande platform, wijzen het toe aan het nieuwe schema en importeren in bulk. Personeelstraining loopt in weken 11–13, zodat uw team klaar is vóór de lancering.

Wat kosten hosting en onderhoud na lancering?

Hosting op Vercel kost ongeveer $45/maand voor het hele district. Statische generatie houdt compute minimaal, zelfs wanneer inschrijvingsseizoen het verkeer overbelast. Geen licenties per school, geen jaarlijkse contracten, geen plugin-updatecycli. U bezit het platform. Uw personeel verwerkt lopende inhoudupdates via de ingebouwde portals.

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