No, we don’t believe in charging schools extortionate annual fees like many of the big education website providers. You simply pay an annual hosting fee to keep your website (or websites) running on our server. Annual hosting is as little as £250 per year, and we offer discounts for hosting multiple websites too.
Experts in School Website Design
Bespoke school websites that help you attract and reassure prospective parents — without the long-term contracts or inflated annual fees charged by the big agencies. Flexible, easy to manage, and built around your school’s identity.
Who We Work With
Independent Schools
Independent school websites need to do more than simply share information — they play a key role in shaping first impressions and supporting the admissions process.
We design websites that showcase your school’s ethos, culture and academic offering while making it easy for prospective families to explore what makes your school unique. From admissions journeys and open day promotion to news, events and parent communications, we help independent schools create websites that feel welcoming, professional and easy to manage.
State Academies
Academy websites need to balance clear communication for parents with the practical needs of publishing important information for staff, governors and the wider community.
We design academy websites that are simple to navigate, easy for your team to update and structured around the information parents and stakeholders need most. From curriculum pages and policy publishing to news, events and parent communication, our approach ensures your website supports the day-to-day needs of a busy academy environment.
Multi-Academy Trusts
Multi-academy trusts often need a website structure that supports both a central trust presence and individual school websites, while maintaining a consistent brand and user experience.
We create scalable website frameworks that allow trusts to manage multiple school websites within a consistent design system. This helps ensure brand consistency across the trust while still allowing each school to showcase its own identity, achievements and community.
Why Choose Us For Your School Website?
Education Web Design Challenges We Solve…
Many schools come to us facing one (or more) of these issues. If any of these sound familiar, we can help.
School Website Design Projects
Maida Vale School
Gardener Schools contacted us as we had worked previously with their marketing manager on another school website project. With that recommendation in place they were keen to work with us to totally overhaul the UX and design of the Maida Vale School site, whilst at the same time making it much easier for the school’s marketing team to manage the site internally moving forward.
British School Of Paris
Based in the west of Paris, The British School Of Paris contacted us to help them increase admissions through the use of individual landing pages for both their Primary and Senior Schools. We designed and built two bespoke landing pages in WordPress and continue to manage BSP’s Google Ad campaigns, to help drive more admissions to their school.
Kew Green Prep School
Kew Green Prep were stuck with a very dated site that no longer reflected them as a school. Updating content was also difficult so they contacted us to work with them on a complete overhaul. This new website gives Kew Green Prep a modernised online presence that they’re confident to stand behind for years to come…
Ravenscourt Prep School
Ravenscourt Prep in London had a similar issue with a previous website that had many restrictions, meaning the look and feel couldn’t be tailored to them specifically. We worked with Ravenscourt to design a completely bespoke look and feel and then integrated this with WordPress, allowing them to confidently administer their new website moving forward.
Our Education Website Design Process
Here’s how we handle school website projects.
Here’s What Our School’s Say…
“Authentic Style continue to build elegant, attractive websites while not compromising on SEO impact. As a small team they take time to understand your requirements and partner you through the whole process to meet them. Replacing an existing school website is stressful process with many stakeholders. We valued their organised approach and their quick responses to issues and questions. Would highly recommend them.”
Georgina Savic – Gardener Schools Group
“Highly recommend Will and the team at Authentic Style, Dorset. They are a talented bunch who took our brief and over delivered. We are delighted with our new website which is fast, responsive, easy to use and beautiful to look at.”
Candice Raby – Hanford School
“We approached Authentic Style with a very specific brief for our updated school website, as well as an extremely tight deadline. The Authentic team were great at listening to and understanding our requirements, developing concepts for the site which were exactly in line with what we had in mind. They were able to quickly adopt a few design changes in the early stages and their efficiency meant they could move swiftly onto the site build. During the build, communication between us and the Authentic team was easy and efficient. We were all extremely pleased with the outcome and, thanks to the training provided by the team, we are now able to easily update and maintain our own site. Staff, students and parents are all delighted with the new St Mary’s site.”
Louisa Cowan – St Mary’s School
Got Questions About Our School Websites?
- Will you tie our school into an annual contract?
- How much will our school website redesign cost?
- How long does it take to design a new school website?
- Can you migrate our current content to WordPress?
- Do you provide ongoing website support for schools?
- Will our new site meet accessibility and safeguarding requirements?
Will you tie our school into an annual contract?
How much will our school website redesign cost?
Every school is different, but most school websites we design start from £3,500 +VAT. The final cost depends on the size and complexity of your site. We’ll give you a clear proposal and fixed price quotation after an initial call. It’s worth nothing we’re able to offer great discounts if you require more than one school website too.
How long does it take to design a new school website?
On average, projects take 8–10 weeks from start to finish, depending on the scope and how quickly content is provided.
Can you migrate our current content to WordPress?
Yes. We’ll handle the migration for you, so your policies, news, and key information carry across seamlessly.
Do you provide ongoing website support for schools?
Absolutely. We offer ongoing maintenance, training, and support so your marketing team always feels confident managing the site. This begins for as little as £49/month.
Will our new site meet accessibility and safeguarding requirements?
Yes. We design with WCAG accessibility guidelines in mind, and we’ll ensure safeguarding and compliance pages are clearly structured and easy to update.
Ready to give your school website a fresh start?
If you’re reviewing school website design companies or exploring specialist education web design agencies, we’re happy to provide guidance – even if you’re still early in the research phase.
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