Private school website design
Private school website design
Education website design that puts prospective parents first
Parent-first, accessible, fast websites for private schools, independent schools and private Montessori schools, built to turn visits into tours.
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What a better private school website delivers
More inquiries and tours
An admissions path on every page and every device.
Parents find answers
Programs, tuition and dates where they expect them.
Easy updates
Your team publishes news and events without a developer.
Found in search
Structure and speed that help you rank.
What is included in a private school website
Built around the parent journey, with current-family content in its own place.
- Admissions sectionProcess, dates, forms and tour booking.
- Program and grade pagesDivisions and signature programs explained.
- Tuition and aid pageFees, payment plans and bursaries.
- Event registrationOpen houses connected to your CRM.
- AccessibilityBuilt to WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
- WordPress with trainingBranded sections your team can reuse.
- SEO structureSchema, speed and redirects.
- TrackingInquiries and tours by page and source.
Private school website design pricing
Every website is quoted in writing after discovery.
Admissions refresh
Quoted in writing
Private schools with a sound site and weak admissions pages
- Admissions and tuition pages
- Inquiry and tour forms
- CRM connection
- Speed and accessibility fixes
New private school website
Quoted in writing
Single-campus private schools starting fresh
- Discovery and sitemap
- Custom design
- WordPress build and training
- Redirects and tracking
Multi-campus platform
By proposal
Private schools with several campuses or divisions
- Campus and division sections
- Shared design system
- Integrations
- Central admissions routing
Hosting, photography and ongoing support are quoted separately. You own the site, domain and content.
Education website design
A website that works as hard as your admissions team
Private school website design for a private school has one main audience: prospective parents deciding whether your school deserves a visit. Canada Create™ designs and builds websites for private schools, independent schools, private Montessori schools and education providers in Canada and the United States, with parent-first structure, real photography, fast mobile performance, accessibility built in, and an inquiry and tour path that feeds your admissions team.
Most private school websites grow by accretion. Every department adds pages, the calendar and the lunch menu compete with admissions, and the parent who is deciding where to send their child cannot find tuition or how to book a tour. A good education website design fixes the structure first, then the look.
Who your private school website serves
Prospective parents (the priority)
They want to understand your approach, programs by grade, results, community, tuition, financial aid, transportation and how to visit. They are often browsing on a phone and comparing several private schools the same evening.
Current families
They need calendars, forms, news and the parent portal. Important, but they already chose you. Their content should be easy to reach without crowding the admissions journey.
Students, alumni, donors and staff candidates
Each needs a clear path: student life, alumni news, giving, and careers. A good structure gives each audience its own door.
What a private school website needs
Admissions at the centre
Admissions process step by step, key dates, entry grades, assessment and interview information, and an inquiry form and tour booking on every admissions page. Inquiries go straight into your admissions CRM with their source. See admissions CRM.
Program and grade pages
One page per division (early years, junior, middle, senior) and per signature program (IB, AP, French immersion, STEM, arts, athletics, learning support), each with what students do, how they are taught and what comes next.
Tuition and financial aid
A clear page with tuition or ranges, what is included, fees, payment plans and financial aid or bursary information. Parents look for this page early; hiding it costs inquiries.
Proof, not adjectives
University acceptances, student work, competition results, class sizes and teacher credentials, all accurate and current. Real photos and short videos of classrooms and campus life, with documented parental consent.
Open house and event pages
Event pages with registration, reminders and calendar links, connected to your CRM so admissions can follow up with everyone who attended.
Fast search and simple navigation
A clear top menu (About, Academics, Admissions, Student life, Community), a visible Inquire button, and site search that works.
Accessibility and compliance
Private schools serve families with every kind of need. We build to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA, the standard Ontario’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) references for larger organizations’ websites. That means readable type, strong contrast, keyboard and screen reader support, captions on video and descriptive alt text. We also set up privacy notices, cookie consent where required, and forms that collect only what admissions needs.
Built for search
A private school website is your main source of organic inquiries. We build it with clean headings, fast load times, school schema markup, program and campus pages targeted to how parents search, and redirects from your old site so you keep existing rankings. See SEO for private schools.
Easy for your team to update
Private schools publish constantly: news, events, calendars, menus. We build on WordPress with reusable, branded page sections, so your communications team can add news and events without breaking the design or needing a developer. Training is included.
Speed, security and hosting
Lightweight builds that load fast on mobile, SSL, regular updates and backups, and spam protection that does not frustrate parents. Hosting can be handled on our website hosting service.
Our private school website process
- Discovery: interviews with admissions, communications and leadership; review of analytics and competitor private schools.
- Architecture: a sitemap built around the parent journey, with current-family content moved to its own area.
- Content plan: which pages to keep, rewrite or retire; photography and video needs.
- Design: a look that expresses your school’s character, tested on phones first.
- Build and integrations: WordPress, forms, CRM, calendar, parent portal links.
- Launch: redirects, tracking and training.
- Improve: monthly review of inquiries and tour bookings by page.
What a private school website costs
Every private school website is quoted in writing after discovery. Cost depends on the number of pages and campuses, content writing, photography and video, integrations with your admissions CRM or student information system, and migration of existing content. Hosting and ongoing support are quoted separately. You own the site, the domain and the content.
The website is the centre of your private school marketing. For our wider web design approach, see web design services.
Talk to a strategist
Ready when you are!
Get a proposal in one business day.
Tell us your goals, budget and timeline. You get a plan, a price and a named strategist, with no long-term contract.
How we build your enrolment engine
A clear, step by step process that starts with how your families decide and ends with enrolments you can trace to their source.
- Discovery and audit Week 1
We review your website, Google Business Profile, ads, reviews and inquiry handling, and learn your programs, capacity and enrolment calendar.
- Tracking and CRM setup Weeks 1 to 2
We connect forms, calls and bookings to analytics and CS+, so every inquiry is recorded with its source.
- Website and landing pages Weeks 2 to 6
We fix or build program, subject and location pages with clear inquiry paths and fast mobile performance.
- Campaign launch Weeks 3 to 6
Search ads, local SEO and follow-up emails go live, timed to your open houses, school year and exam periods.
- Monthly optimization Ongoing
We shift budget toward programs and channels with the lowest cost per enrolment and report in plain language.
What clients say on Google
Reviews pulled live from our Google Business Profile.
Free review, no obligation
Not sure where to start? Send us what you have.
Share your current site, campaign or brief. A strategist reviews it and replies within one business day with a written recommendation and a fixed quote.
Why private schools choose Canada Create™
18+ years in digital marketing
We have helped businesses across Canada and the United States grow online since 2008.
BBB Accredited, A+ rating
A long record of doing what we say for the clients we serve.
Enrolments, not vanity metrics
We report inquiries, bookings and enrolments by source, not only clicks and impressions.
One team for every channel
SEO, Google Ads, websites, hosting and email follow-up work together under one plan.
Quoted in writing
Every fee is confirmed in writing before work starts. Get a proposal in one business day.
24/7* sales and support
Call +1 (800) 808-9235 any time with a question about your campaigns or website.
Respectful, accurate messaging
Copy that speaks to parents and students honestly and describes your programs, accreditation and outcomes accurately.
Canada and the United States
We work with the terms each market uses, from independent school to private academy.
Private school website design questions
What should a private school website include?
A clear admissions section, program and grade pages, tuition and financial aid, proof such as results and student work, event registration, and an inquiry or tour option on every page.
How much does a private school website cost?
It depends on pages, campuses, content, photography and integrations. We quote every build in writing after discovery.
How long does a private school website take?
Most single-campus builds take eight to fourteen weeks, depending on content and approvals.
Can our staff update the website?
Yes. We build on WordPress with reusable branded sections and train your team.
Will we lose search rankings with a redesign?
Not if redirects are planned properly. We map every old page before launch.
Is the website accessible?
Yes. We build to WCAG 2.0 Level AA, the standard referenced by AODA.
Can the website connect to our admissions system?
Yes. Inquiry and event forms can feed CS+ or your existing admissions CRM.
Do we own the website?
Yes: the site, the domain and all content.
Every open seat in September was decided last fall
Parents research private schools a year or more before they apply. If they cannot find you, or your website does not answer their questions, they tour somewhere else. Let us show you where inquiries are slipping away.
