Services · Website development · School websites
Codeeo handles school website development in Dubai for private schools, school groups and early years settings. We build the public site that parents compare before a tour: curriculum, admissions, fees as approved, inspection rating, facilities, transport areas and a clear enquiry path. Your admissions and marketing staff edit it themselves, it loads fast on a parent's phone, and it treats children's images and data with the care that safeguarding demands.
This page is about the public website and the admissions enquiry it produces. Parent communication, attendance and bus tracking belong in a school app or portal, which we can link from the site without mixing the two.
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What a school website needs
Families moving to Dubai often shortlist schools from abroad, months before they arrive, and they compare a dozen sites in one evening. They want the curriculum, the year groups with places, the fee table, the KHDA inspection rating, the bus areas and a way to talk to admissions. Local families compare on the same points plus distance from home in Mirdif, Al Barsha, Dubai Silicon Oasis or Dubai Hills. If those answers are buried in PDFs or old news posts, the parent moves to the next school in the tab. We structure the site around those decisions first, then add the storytelling that shows what your school is like inside. Every template is written for English and Arabic where you need both, and every page that shows children is governed by the consent rules your safeguarding lead sets. The result is a site that answers the shortlist questions quickly and hands a warm, well described enquiry to your admissions team.
One admissions section with year groups, entry points, age cut offs, the steps after enquiry and a short form that asks only what the first conversation needs. Enquiries are tagged by year group and campus and routed to the right registrar, with an automatic acknowledgement in the parent's language.
Registrars receive enquiries they can act on the same day.
Parents choose a tour slot or open morning from times your admissions team publishes, or request a video call if they are still overseas. The request lands in your CRM or inbox with the child's age and preferred start term attached.
More shortlisted families walk through your gate.
Separate pages for early years, primary, secondary and sixth form or high school, explaining the curriculum, assessment, Arabic and Islamic education, languages and pathways in language a parent new to the system can follow.
Parents understand your offer without a phone call.
A fee page your finance team updates when the KHDA approved fees change, with payment terms and what is included. The latest inspection rating can be shown with a link to the published report, so the figure on your site never drifts from the official one.
Fewer questions, and no outdated figures left online.
Photo consent flags in the media library, no student surnames on public pages, gallery permissions per image and a clear safeguarding statement naming the role, not the person, families should contact. Forms collect parent data only, never medical or child records.
Your public site never exposes a child it should not.
English and Arabic versions with proper right to left layouts, separate URLs and hreflang so each ranks in its own language. Translations are managed side by side in the CMS, and untranslated pages are hidden rather than half shown.
Arabic speaking families get a site built for them, not a widget.
Technical SEO, School and EducationalOrganization schema, campus pages with map details and Google Business Profile alignment, so searches for schools near Al Barsha or a British school in Dubai Hills surface the right campus with correct hours and phone numbers.
The right campus appears for the right local search.
A transport page showing the communities your buses serve, pickup windows, the bus registration route and the provider you use, plus campus maps, gate locations and parking guidance for drop off. Families relocating within Dubai check this before anything else, because a long commute from Jumeirah Village Circle or Al Warqa can rule a school out.
Parents confirm early that the daily school run works for them.
A careers section with vacancies, safer recruitment statements and application routes, built for teachers applying from overseas as well as from inside the UAE, and connected to your recruitment platform if you use one.
Stronger candidates find you before the recruitment fairs.
Compressed images, lazy loaded galleries and a lean theme so pages pass Core Web Vitals on mobile data. Contrast, headings, keyboard use and captions follow WCAG guidance for parents with disabilities. Analytics and advertising tags only fire after consent, and the privacy notice explains plainly what the school collects through the site. News, events and the term calendar publish through the same lean templates, so a busy sports week never slows the site down.
A fast, accessible site that treats parent data properly.
Who this is for
Most school websites in Dubai were built for a single campus and a single admissions season, then patched each year. They end up with three fee PDFs, old staff photos and forms that send email to someone who left. These are the starting points we see most, and each changes what the site has to do first.
Good school website design in Dubai also has to work for two readers at once: the parent comparing schools, and the leadership team who want the site to reflect the school's ethos accurately.
Pages added by different teams, broken links, slow image heavy galleries and admissions information spread across news posts. We audit what exists, keep the pages that rank and the URLs parents have bookmarked, rewrite the structure around admissions and curriculum, and redirect everything else so search visibility is not lost when the new site goes live.
A clean rebuild with redirects keeps the rankings you already earned.
A group with campuses in different districts needs one brand, shared policies and separate admissions teams. We build a group site with campus sections that each have their own fees, contacts, transport areas and inspection rating, while news and careers can be shared or kept local. Editors only see the campus they manage.
Each campus keeps its own voice inside one group system.
Before the first intake there are no results, no photos of students and no reviews. The site has to sell the founding team, the building, the curriculum and the plan, and collect expressions of interest that become applications once approvals are in place. We plan pages that grow as the school opens rather than being thrown away.
Early interest is captured and kept for the opening intake.
Parents of very young children care about routines, staff ratios, food, safety and the setting itself. A smaller site with warm photography that follows strict consent rules, clear session and age information, and an easy visit request often does more than a large site. We keep it quick to update by the manager.
Small sites still need consent rules and a clear visit request.
How we work with schools
Schools rarely want a launch in the middle of the main admissions push or in the last week of term. We plan delivery around your calendar, agree the scope and the content owners in writing, and price the work on what drives it: the number of campuses, page templates, languages, the integrations with your admissions and information systems, and how much content we write or migrate. Ongoing support for updates, security and hosting is optional and quoted separately. You receive a written scope listing every template and integration before any design work starts.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We usually build on WordPress or a headless CMS with Next.js, depending on how many editors and campuses you have. Forms connect to your CRM or admissions system, the site is hosted on infrastructure you control, and data processing is set up with UAE PDPL in mind.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on campuses, languages and how much content needs rewriting.
A single campus site in English with content largely ready moves much faster than a group site in English and Arabic with integrations into an admissions CRM. The slowest part is usually content: approved curriculum text, consented photography and translations. We agree the schedule in discovery, set content deadlines for your team, and plan launch away from your busiest admissions weeks so the switch does not disrupt enquiries. Content checklists go to your team early, so missing photography or approvals show up weeks before they could delay launch.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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