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Public school districts

Websites for public school districts.

Parents check the district site at six in the morning for a closing and in August for the bus routes, and every school in the district needs pages of its own. We set up a section and an editor for each school, a closing notice staff can post from a phone and a server planned for the busy weeks before school starts.

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What we look after

What a school district website has to do.

Give every school its section

Each school gets its own section with its calendar, staff and news, and the school's office gets a login that edits only those pages.

Post closings before sunrise

A delay or closing has to be on the site before families wake up. Staff can post it from a phone, and the caching is planned for the rush of parents that follows.

Link the systems parents use

Grades and attendance live in your student information system, like PowerSchool or Infinite Campus, and messages go out through tools like ParentSquare. We link them where parents look and keep student records off the website.

Publish board materials

Board agendas and policies may come from BoardDocs or a similar tool. We embed or link them, and if they're posted as PDFs, we check the templates against WCAG 2.1 AA.

Hold up in August

Bus routes, supply lists and registration bring a busy few weeks before school starts. We plan the server for it, and visits aren't billed.

Post menus as text

A lunch menu or calendar posted as a picture is blank to a screen reader. We put them on the site as text and fix other WCAG 2.1 AA problems we find, quoted first.

What we often hear

What usually goes wrong.

  • The closing notice went up an hour after the buses would have left, because only one person could post it.
  • Each school built its own site years ago, and now the district has several logins on several hosts.
  • The lunch menu and the calendar are posted as images, so a screen reader reads nothing.
  • The registration page slowed down the week before school started.
A note from Ryan

Who can post a closing

On a district site I find out who can post a closing and how many steps it takes. If the answer is one person at the central office, that's the first thing I'd change, because that's the notice families need fastest. I'd also check whether each school's calendar is a page you can read or a picture of a printout.

Ryan Lovett, founder of Hosterr
Ryan Lovett
Founder, Hosterr
Send me a message

Could you post a snow day before the buses leave?

Send us the district's site and tell us how a closing gets posted today, and we'll write back with how we'd set it up so it takes a minute.

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Plans

How much do you want us to do?

Organizations like yours usually go on a Custom SLA, with response times and the terms written into the contract. Smaller sites can still use Managed.

Managed

$50 /mo

per site

You already have a site and you update it yourself. We look after everything underneath it.

What we take care of
  • Plugin, theme and WordPress updates snapshot saved first
  • Server, PHP and database updates planned and tested by us
  • Backups twice a day verified and kept off-site for 30 days
  • Security and monitoring scanning with a firewall and alerts
  • Same-day replies from the developer who does the work
  • Regular email updates what we did, in plain English
  • Free migration we move it for you
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Changes to the site itself are quoted first at our standard $95/hr.

A new website included

Managed + Website

$99 /mo

per site, built and hosted by us

We build you a new website, then host it and keep it current. After that, send the requests, like text changes or new pages, and they get made.

Everything in Managed, plus
  • A new website, built for you up to 10 pages, designed and built when you join
  • 1 hour of developer time a month worth $95 at our standard rate
  • Site problems fixed out of that time no quote to approve first
  • Checks after updates we test your forms and checkout
  • A monthly review a look at speed and security
  • First in line your email gets picked up first
  • A design refresh after two years your existing pages, made current
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12-month minimum, then month to month. Unused time carries over one month. Extra hours are quoted first at $95/hr.

Custom SLA

Quote

after we look at your sites and the terms you need

For agencies, larger organizations, and custom web apps and software that need more development, resources and attention.

Everything in Managed, plus
  • Set up for agencies white-label, every client site on one bill
  • Response times in the contract agreed before anything gets signed
  • Uptime commitments in writing with a named person to escalate to
  • A dedicated server, if you need one sized to your traffic
  • Update windows that suit you scheduled around your busy hours
  • Custom software and integrations web apps and tools built around how you work
  • A development team when you need one vetted US-based developers for bigger jobs
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We agree on the terms with you first.

Add-ons for either plan

Common questions

What people ask us.

The Justice Department's 2024 Title II rule covers public school districts and names WCAG 2.1 AA as the standard. Since the dates were extended in 2026, whether yours is April 26, 2027 or April 26, 2028 depends on the population figure the rule uses for your district, so ask the district's attorney which one you fall under. Either way, we can review the site and fix what we find, with the work quoted first.

Yes. We can build one district site with a section for each school, or keep separate school sites and host and look after all of them. The build is quoted first at $95 an hour or a fixed price, and each principal can review their school's section on a staging copy before launch.

No. Grades, attendance and anything else about a student stay in your student information system and the tools built for it. The website links to them, and its own forms ask for no more than a parent's name and contact details.

They can if you want them to. Each teacher or office gets a login with a role that limits what they can change, and you decide who reviews posts before they go live.
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Government

Others we look after.

Government

Websites for towns, counties, libraries and public districts.

Towns and cities

Meeting agendas, permits and notices residents need.

Counties

Departments, records and public notices.

Public libraries

Catalog links, events and room bookings.

Tell us what you need.

Tell us what you're running and what's getting in the way. We'll write back the same day with a plan, and if Hosterr isn't the right fit, we'll say so.

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