New Jersey school-website studio
School websites your district can actually keep up.
Managed, accessible, and about half the price — built and run by one New Jersey teacher who got tired of watching schools overpay for sites nobody can update.
- Half the price
- A person, not a ticket queue
- Same-day changes
- Compliance guaranteed in writing
Every family, one tap away.
Calendars, lunch menus, and enrollment — all in one place.
The problem
Small schools are overpaying for sites nobody can update.
Across New Jersey, small districts are stuck on aging Edlio and WordPress sites where the website is a secretary's side duty. Vendors like Apptegy and Finalsite charge $6,000–$15,000 a year — and still take two weeks to change a phone number.
- ~86%
- of district websites still fail basic accessibility checks.
- $6k–$15k
- a year — what vendors like Apptegy and Finalsite typically charge.
- 2 weeks
- the wait to change a phone number on many vendor sites.
The clock is real
April 26, 2028
Under the ADA Title II rule, school districts serving fewer than 50,000 people must meet WCAG 2.1 AA by this date. Accessibility demand letters are already going out — this is not a someday problem.
What we do
Everything a small school needs, nothing it doesn't.
About half the price
A single-school district pays $2,900 a year where Apptegy charges around $5,900. Priced per site, not per student.
A person, not a ticket queue
Email one sentence and a real person makes the change. No portal to learn, no ticket number, no queue.
Same-day when it counts
The emergency banner is yours to flip from your phone in about 10 seconds. Routine changes land in 2–3 business days.
Compliance in writing
Every site ships WCAG 2.1 AA with a signed VPAT/ACR. You are covered for the 2028 deadline — guaranteed on paper.
Static sites — no database, no student data. Nothing to breach, no plugins to patch, nothing to go down at 2 a.m.
See it live
A real school site you can click through.
Riverbend Public Schools is a complete, working district site we built — calendars, a staff directory, board documents, the works. It is a fictional demo district (our master template), so poke around freely.
Pricing, published
The honest number, right on the website.
We don't charge you per student — a website doesn't cost more because you have more kids.
Base — district or single school
$2,900 / year
$3,500 one-time setup
Each additional school site
+$900 / year
+$1,500 setup per site
Every annual plan includes
- Managed hosting, SSL & CDN
- Unlimited routine content changes
- Same-day emergency support
- Accessibility monitoring
- A signed VPAT (conformance report)
- Annual increase capped at 3% / CPI
Setup includes migrating up to 40 pages per site. Annual increases are capped at 3% or CPI, whichever is lower — no surprise renewals.
How we compare
-
1 school · ~700 students
$2,900/yr with us vs ≈ $5,900/yr with Apptegy -
5 schools · ~3,500 students
$6,500/yr with us vs ≈ $15,000/yr with Apptegy
Founding districts
The first one or two districts lock a discounted three-year rate in exchange for a case study. If that's you, say so in your scan request.
How it works
Changing your site takes one sentence.
- 01
You send a sentence
Email it, or tap the emergency banner form on your phone. One plain sentence is enough — “Change the snow-day message to…” or “New board agenda attached.”
- 02
We draft it that hour
AI drafts the change on our side and a real person reviews every word before it ships. There is no chatbot with keys to your site.
- 03
It goes live
Your change publishes to a static site with essentially nothing to break. You get a link back to confirm it is live.
Who it's for
Built for New Jersey's small schools.
Especially districts with no comms staff, where the website is a secretary's side duty and nobody has time to fight a vendor portal.
Small public districts
300–2,000 students, often with no communications staff of their own.
Charter schools
Single campuses and small networks that need to look established from day one.
Private & parochial
Independent and faith-based K–12 schools across New Jersey.
New Jersey K–12 only — small public districts (300–2,000 students), charters, and private or parochial schools.
Start here
Start with a free accessibility scan.
Send us your current site's address. We run it against WCAG 2.1 AA and send back a plain-English report of what a demand letter would flag — free, no obligation.