Craft is the perfect CMS for Schools!

With a clean and intuitive interface it’s easy for non-technical staff, like teachers or administrative personnel, to create or manage site content.

Craft‘s granular user permissions, with customisable roles, allow site administrators to control who can edit what content. Teachers, administrators, and marketing staff can each have different levels of access, ensuring content accuracy, oversight, and security.

With Craft’s flexible content models, schools can create tailored content types for news pages, updates, class schedules, events, and more. 

Staff can create custom pages, without technical assistance, by mixing and matching pre-defined content ​’blocks‘ to create new web pages.

Craft allows the creation of dedicated sections for essential school information, including, curriculum, staff profiles, departments, facilities, events, etc.. This helps you to organise content in a way that’s easy for both staff to manage, and parents or students to navigate.

Schools often have events like parent-teacher meetings, sports days, and open houses. Craft supports plugins like Events Calendar, which allow schools to display events dynamically and keep the school community informed.

Content editors can draft and schedule posts ahead of time, ensuring that upcoming events and announcements are visible well in advance.

Schools often use a range of external platforms for grades, admissions, and virtual learning. Craft CMS‘ flexibility allows it to integrate with many of these systems (such as APIs for student information systems), streamlining workflows and ensuring data consistency across platforms.

With a rich plugin library, Craft can add features like contact forms, galleries, and even LMS integrations without requiring custom development.

Craft is mobile-friendly by default and makes it easy for developers to create fully responsive websites. This ensures parents, students, and faculty can access information from any device, whether they’re on a desktop or mobile.

Schools must often comply with accessibility standards, and Craft’s flexibility and accessibility features allows developers to implement accessibility best practices, from the start, ensuring the site is usable for everyone.

Craft’s powerful search functionality can be customised to prioritise relevant results, making it easy for users to find the exact information they’re looking for, whether that’s a faculty bio, school policy, or event detail.

With built-in SEO tools, and an SEO-friendly structure, and plugins like SEOmatic, Craft helps schools optimise their content to appear in search results, which is especially helpful for reaching prospective families researching schools in the area.

Craft can support a blog or news section, helping schools share stories, student achievements, and faculty highlights, which strengthens community engagement.

Schools can leverage Craft’s email integration plugins to collect emails and share newsletters, ensuring the community stays informed and engaged.

Craft CMS is known for its High Security Standards and built-in security measures, including secure user authentication and protection from common vulnerabilities, which is essential for handling sensitive information.

As schools grow or require more functionality, Craft can scale effortlessly. It’s flexibility means it’s suitable for everything from small private schools to large schools or colleges needing robust features and complex integrations.