Devectra / Schools

Schools

Digital infrastructure for schools: public-facing information, admissions, and internal systems that staff can maintain themselves.

Overview

A school's website has to do two contradictory jobs at once: reassure prospective families with a professional first impression, and serve as daily working infrastructure for staff who are not developers. Most school websites fail at the second job — content goes stale because updating it requires someone who knows HTML. We build for the person who has to update the lunch menu on a Tuesday afternoon, not just for the open-house visitor.

Who we work with

  • Independent and private schools managing admissions digitally for the first time
  • Schools whose current site is maintained by a single staff member with no technical background
  • Administrators consolidating parent communication, enrollment forms and staff resources into one system

What we typically build

  • Public websites structured around admissions and parent information
  • Delegated content editing so office staff can update pages without a developer
  • Enrollment and inquiry forms that route to the right staff member
  • Secure staff or parent portals where the school needs one

What differs here

  • Purchasing decisions typically involve administrators, not developers
  • Accessibility and compliance requirements
  • Content structured for parents, staff and prospective families separately

Our approach

We design the content structure around who actually edits it — front office staff, department heads, admissions — before we design how it looks. A school site that only the original developer can update becomes a liability within a year.

Relevant solutions

Common questions

Before you reach out.

That's the design requirement, not an afterthought. We build the CMS around the specific people who'll use it, with a short walkthrough at handoff rather than a manual nobody reads.

Yes — inquiry and enrollment forms that route to the right staff inbox are a standard part of an institutional website build.

Yes, we audit existing content during discovery and carry over what's still accurate, rather than starting from a blank page.

Let's talk about what your organization needs.

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