New Jersey school-website studio
School websites by an actual teacher.
Managed, accessible, and about half the price of the big vendors — built and run by one New Jersey public-school teacher who’s seen exactly what those vendors charge.
Half the price · A person, not a queue · Same-day changes · AA in writing
Every family, one tap away.
Calendars, lunch menus, and enrollment — all in one place.
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 homepages 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 isn’t a someday problem.
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. I price per site — a website doesn’t cost more because you have more kids.
A person, not a ticket queue
Email me one sentence and I make the change myself. No portal to learn, no ticket number, no queue — you’re talking to the person who builds it.
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. You’re covered for the 2028 deadline — guaranteed on paper, not just promised.
Static sites — no database, no student data. Nothing to breach, no plugins to patch, nothing to go down at 2 a.m.
A real school site you can click through.
Riverbend Public Schools is a complete, working district site I built — calendars, a staff directory, board documents, the works. It’s a fictional demo district (my master template), so poke around freely.
The honest number, right on the website.
The number’s right here on the page, because you shouldn’t need a sales call to hear it — and I don’t charge you per student.
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 I compare
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1 school · ~700 students
$2,900/yr Theirs $5,900/yr with Apptegy -
5 schools · ~3,500 students
$6,500/yr Theirs $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.
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
I draft it that hour
I draft the change and check every word before it ships. There’s no chatbot with keys to your site — just me, the way it should be.
- 03
It goes live
Your change publishes to a static site with essentially nothing to break. You get a link back to confirm it’s live.
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.
Send me your site. I’ll grade it for free.
Send me your current site’s address. I run it against WCAG 2.1 AA and send back a plain-English report of what a demand letter would flag — free, no obligation.