Charter, private, and faith-based schools in Minnesota
A charter or private school website has two jobs that fight each other. From January to March it has to convince a family who has never heard of you to apply. From September to June it has to tell a parent, in ten seconds and on a phone, whether there is school tomorrow. Most school sites are built for a third audience nobody mentions, the board that approved the budget, and end up with a photo carousel, a mission statement, and a calendar that stopped updating in November.
Three Minnesota school websites delivered: Gateway STEM Academy, a K-8 charter in St. Paul; Midway Star Academy, also a charter; and Iqra School, a PreK-4 private Islamic school — no district work, and we will not imply otherwise.
We build for both, and for the person who actually keeps it running: the office manager whose job description lists communications somewhere below attendance and lunch counts. That constraint drives everything. No page that needs a developer, no calendar maintained in two places, no alert bar that requires a laptop at 5:40 in the morning. Gateway STEM Academy, Midway Star Academy, and Iqra School all had some version of it. We have not built a district site and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Worth knowing
Minnesota charter schools operate under Minn. Stat. ch. 124E, which carries public-posting obligations — board meeting notices and minutes, admissions and lottery policy, annual reports, and the authorizer relationship among them. Most charter school sites treat these as a PDF dumping ground, which technically satisfies the requirement and fails every parent trying to read it on a phone. We build them as real pages with a PDF fallback, so the same content serves compliance and families at once. Public schools also fall under ADA Title II, where DOJ web accessibility compliance dates land in 2027 and 2028 depending on the size of the population served — confirm the current rule, as the dates have shifted. General information, not legal advice.
Published ranges, not a call-for-pricing page. These are what projects in this sector actually land at with us. Your number depends on page count, functionality, and how much content support you need.
One-campus school site
Core pages, one calendar, staff directory, closure alerts, and an enrollment inquiry form. The right size for a school under roughly 200 students with one person handling communications.
$3,500 to $7,000
Full enrollment site
Full admissions funnel with online application and tour booking, seat availability by grade, family hub, board and compliance section, translated pages, and a structure the office can genuinely run alone.
$7,000 to $18,000
Care plan through the school year
We keep the calendar, staff list, and postings current from August through June, plus backups and security. Most schools need it in year one and drop it once the office takes over.
$100 to $350 / month
Want the full breakdown across every service? See ourpricing page.
Proof
Real projects, real organizations, live sites you can go and look at.
Gateway STEM Academy is a public K–8 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, dedicated to empowering every student through hands-on, inquiry-based learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Midway Star Academy provides students with educational opportunities that respect their background, culture, learning styles, and interests, enabling them to meet high academic expectations in an environment that celebrates their unique culture while learning American customs and what it means to be a citizen.
Iqra School is a PreK–4 private Islamic school committed to helping students realize their utmost potential. Iqra sets a benchmark for excellence through a comprehensive, core-knowledge curriculum, and its students are expected to exceed the State of Minnesota's academic standards.
How we work
We listen to your goals, gather your requirements, create a design strategy, and deliver a website that works. Here is what that looks like.
We listen to your goals. A short conversation about your organization, your audience, and what success looks like.
We gather your requirements and turn them into a clear design strategy, sitemap, and timeline you can sign off on.
Our designers and developers craft a responsive, fast, and accessible product tailored to your brand.
We deliver a website that works, then stay available for updates, security checks, and improvements as you grow.
FAQ
That is the whole design goal. Announcements, calendar events, staff changes, and a closure banner all need to be editable by the person at the front desk, from a phone, without a support ticket. We train the two or three people who will actually do it on the exact tasks they will do, and we record the session so the next hire is not stranded.
Ask us for the board version. We write a one-page scope with a fixed price, the timeline, and what happens if content is late, so it can go in the packet without your director rewriting it. Tell us your packet deadline and your meeting date. Most boards approve at one meeting; if yours wants two, we hold the quote and the schedule.
June or July. A school site takes six to ten weeks and the limiting factor is always content: photos with releases cleared, staff lists, program descriptions, the calendar for a year that is not finalized. Starting in November means launching mid-lottery, which is the worst possible time to move URLs. If you are in December already, the honest answer is to launch in May, after the lottery, and spend the winter gathering content.
Yes, and for some of our schools it matters more than the design does. We build real translated pages for the routes that carry weight, enrollment, the handbook, closures, rather than bolting on a widget that mangles the application form. Machine translation can cover the rest. Tell us which languages your families actually use, not which ones the census says.
No. Our school work is charter and private, Gateway STEM Academy, Midway Star Academy, and Iqra School, and a district site involves procurement, a communications department, and a scale we have not done. If you are a district, hire someone who has. If you are a charter with an authorizer and one half-time comms person, that is exactly our range.
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