K-12 School District Website Platform
45 Schools. One Platform. Zero Plugin Nightmares.
Replace WordPress Multisite and Finalsite with a single Next.js application — district hub, school microsites, teacher portals, and parent portals in one deployment.
A school district website platform is one web application that handles everything: the district homepage, individual school microsites, teacher class pages, and parent portals — all from a single codebase. WordPress Multisite spins up a separate installation for each school. This platform does it differently — 45 schools share one build, one brand system, and one security surface, using programmatic routing to keep it all together. Teachers edit their own pages. Parents find bus schedules on their phones. IT stops fighting plugin conflicts.
Your Current Site May Be a Liability
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.
Programmatic School Pages
45 schools, 45 dynamic routes, one Next.js build. Adding a school means adding a database row — not standing up a new site.
Role-Based Access Control
Supabase RLS policies enforce teacher → class, principal → school, district admin → everything, right at the database level.
Searchable Staff Directory
District-wide staff search filtered by school, department, and role — plus job postings and online application forms for teacher recruiting.
Static Generation + ISR
School pages generate statically at build time and revalidate when content changes. Sub-second load times, no server spikes during enrollment season.
Cafeteria Menu & Bus Schedules
Structured data feeds for lunch menus and bus routes that parents can filter by school and day. No more PDFs that fall apart on a phone screen.
Board Meeting Integration
Upcoming board meetings with agendas, minutes archives, and live stream links — public records requirements met with documents that are actually searchable and accessible.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Get Your District Assessment
Tell us about your district. We'll deliver an architecture proposal and quote within 48 hours.
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