Your IT Director Just Spent 11 Hours on a Single Faculty Photo Update
If you're a district tech lead supporting 30+ school sites on WordPress Multisite, you've hit the ceiling where one principal's homepage takeover crashes the network.
Replace WordPress Multisite and Finalsite with a single Next.js application -- district hub, school microsites, teacher portals, and parent portals in one deployment.
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.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
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.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
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
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
District Discovery & Content Audit
Weeks 1-2We 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.
Platform Architecture & Design System
Weeks 3-5We 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.
Core Platform Build
Weeks 6-10District 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.
Content Migration & Training
Weeks 11-13We 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.
Launch & Post-Launch Support
Week 14+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.
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