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Custom website for private schools
A custom website for a private school costs from $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio, or $499/mo for 24 months with maintenance and hosting included. Unlike a template, it's designed around how a private school actually operates — removing the manual touchpoints (Collecting and processing PDF admissions applications by hand) that template sites force on you.
A private school website carries an unusually heavy load: it's the first impression for prospective families paying premium tuition, the daily hub for current families, and the front door for alumni and donors. Prospective parents genuinely judge academic quality and community by the site's professionalism, so a dated, volunteer-built site quietly undersells everything the school offers. A custom site presents academics, values, faculty, and student life with the polish that matches your tuition.
Where it becomes a true asset is the admissions funnel. A custom site captures inquiries, streamlines campus-visit scheduling, and makes applying straightforward — turning interested families into enrolled ones instead of losing them in PDF applications and email tag. It's built around the enrollment cycle that funds the school, not a static brochure that happens to list the address.
The reality for most private schools
The admissions funnel leaks at every step
Inquiry, campus visit, application, and enrollment each involve manual coordination. PDF applications, email tour scheduling, and phone follow-up let prospective families slip away, and the admissions office can't easily track where each family is in the funnel.
The website undersells the school
Prospective families judge academics, values, and community through the site. A dated, volunteer-built site signals disorganization to exactly the families paying premium tuition, and it competes poorly against schools with polished digital presence.
Current-family logistics flood the office
Calendars, forms, lunch orders, event RSVPs, tuition, and constant communication overwhelm staff when handled by email and paper. Parents ask the same questions repeatedly because information is scattered rather than in one self-service place.
What does it cost?
One scoping pass, one fixed number — no hourly billing. Beyond a marketing site, private schools need logged-in workflows — admissions funnels, current-family portals, and advancement tools — that justify a platform build.
- Website — from $4,500 one-time (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included.
- Platform — from $16,000 one-time, or $1,399/mo for 24 months with Website Update + Maintenance included.
The monthly plan totals somewhat more than paying up front — that's the honest trade for spreading the cost and having us operate everything for two years. Details in the payment plan guide and on the pricing page.
Start a project — one scoping pass, a fixed number within one business day.
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Common questions
- How much does a website for a private school cost?
- From $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included. One scoping pass produces a fixed number — no hourly billing.
- What should a private school website include?
- Beyond presenting the business: the workflows that remove manual work — admissions inquiry & application and tour & interview scheduling — plus the integrations private schools actually use.
- Who maintains the website after launch?
- We do. The Maintenance Plan ($299/mo, included in the payment plan) covers hosting, SSL, security, backups, updates, and small content changes — you never inherit a server login you didn't ask for.
- Is a template or website builder good enough instead?
- Sometimes — if the site just needs to exist and you're happy doing the manual work a template can't remove. The honest comparison is in our custom vs website builder guide.