Homeroom Website · the school’s public site
A school website that stays current because it shares your roster.
Most school websites are built once and then go stale, because nobody has time to update them. Homeroom Website is different: a school’s public site shares the same platform as its directory, calendar, and publications, so the parts that change keep themselves current instead of freezing the day the site launched.
The public site, the live directory and calendar, the blog, and the online edition are live today. A school’s own custom domain is in early access; this page says plainly which is which.
A public site tied to the platform
Stand up a clean public site with the school’s own colors, pages, and contact details — built on the same platform that already runs the roster, the calendar, and the publications, not a separate web shop.
Directory, calendar, and news stay current
The staff directory, the calendar, and the news feed are live views of the platform’s own data, so they do not go stale the way a hand-built page does.
No separate web shop to hire
A school does not need to hire an outside web shop or keep a second login just to keep its public site looking current.
Build it once, from real pieces of the platform
A school builds its public site from the same block palette the platform already ships: a hero, the school’s own pages, photo galleries, and a contact card, alongside a staff directory and a calendar that are not static text but live pointers to the school’s own roster and schedule. Add up to a small core set of pages at no charge; a deeper page tree and a handful of richer blocks (an events list, an embedded form, a video, a testimonial) sit behind a separate, clearly-labeled tier this page does not price.
A staff directory on the site is a name, a role, and a school-chosen contact — the same roster the front office already manages, presented publicly, never more than the school chooses to publish. Staff are adults, so no student-consent gate applies to a staff listing.
The parts that usually go stale keep themselves current
A calendar embedded on the site is the school’s own calendar, not a copy someone re-types onto a webpage every month; an alert banner for a closure or an early dismissal is the same notice the rest of the platform already carries. The site’s news feed is a pointer to an edition the school has already published — a story from the online edition or a post from Homeroom Blog can appear on the homepage without anyone re-authoring it a second time in a second tool.
Because it is one platform, updating the roster, the calendar, or a publication updates the public site at the same time, instead of a front office having to remember to push the same change to a separate website tool by hand.
Safe to publish, said honestly
A public school website is one of the few places on the platform that a student’s name or photo can legitimately appear — a spotlight pulled in through the news feed, for example. That only happens because the school’s own staff chose to publish the underlying story in the first place; the site does not pull a name, a photo, or a contact detail from the private student record or roster on its own.
Every photo the site serves is re-checked against the family’s current, opt-in, default-deny consent decision on every single read — not just at the moment a page was first published. If a guardian revokes consent afterward, that student’s photo drops from the site going forward, even though the page itself stays up. This is a conditional, consent-gated, school-controlled promise about what the site is allowed to show, not a blanket claim that a student’s data never exists anywhere on the platform.
What the school does not choose to publish stays private. A student’s record and a family’s contact information are never made public through the site, are never sold, and are never handed to an outside company.
How the money works, honestly
The core school website is free to start — the base site, its small core page set, and the staff-directory, calendar, and news-feed blocks carry no charge and are never paywalled. A separate, off-by-default tier adds a deeper page tree and a handful of richer blocks; this page names that tier without inventing a live price for it.
This page takes no payment and runs no checkout. This is a for-profit vendor, not a charity, and nothing here is dressed up as a charitable gift.
What is live, and what is early access
The public site is running today, built from the platform’s own core blocks. One piece is still opening up, and this page keeps the line between them honest.
Live today
The public site, the core page set, the staff directory, the calendar, and the news feed all run on the platform right now, alongside the live blog and online edition it can pull from.
Early access: a school’s own custom domain
Pointing a school’s own address at its site. Not live yet; built on the same domain-registration surface the platform already ships elsewhere, opening gradually.
How we label it
If a capability is early access, this page says early access — not “coming soon” theater. A school should never plan around a promise it cannot see.
Common questions
How is this different from homeroom.blog and homeroom.today?
Different scope. homeroom.blog is the school's own longer-form public story, and homeroom.today is the short daily view of what is happening right now. Homeroom Website is the WHOLE public site those two content facets can feed into -- the homepage, the pages, the directory, and the calendar -- not a third content feed of its own.
Is this the same product as elementaryschool.website or middleschool.website?
No. Those are segment-branded sites for one grade band, with their own newsletter opt-in, translate lane, and event sign-ups. Homeroom Website is the flagship Homeroom-brand builder: any school on the platform, told from the platform's own angle, without claiming that grade-band bundle.
Can a student's name or photo end up on the public site?
Only if the school's own staff already chose to publish it -- a spotlight the news feed pulls in, for example. The site does not pull from the private student record on its own, and every photo is re-checked against the family's current consent on every read; a guardian who revokes consent afterward drops that student going forward.
What stays private?
A student's record and a family's contact information are never made public through the site, are never sold, and are never handed to an outside company. What is public is only what the school deliberately chooses to publish.
Does it cost anything to start?
The core site is free to start -- the base site, the core page set, and the staff-directory, calendar, and news-feed blocks are never paywalled. No checkout runs on this page.
Can a school use its own domain?
That is in early access -- built, opening gradually, not available yet. Today the site is reached at its Homeroom Website address.
What this page is and is not claiming
Homeroom Website is a real public site built from the platform’s own core blocks — a staff directory, a calendar, and a news feed that are live pointers to the school’s own data, not a frozen copy. There is no page-view count, no adoption number, and no testimonial rendered on this marketing page — those would be invented, and we do not invent them. A student’s name or photo appears on the site only because the school’s own staff already chose to publish it; the site does not pull from the private student record on its own, and every photo is re-checked against the family’s current, opt-in consent on every read, so a later revocation drops that student going forward. A student’s record and a family’s contact information are never public through the site, never sold, and never handed to an outside company. Money is honest-off: the core site is free to start, and this page runs no checkout and takes no payment. This is a for-profit vendor, not a charity, and nothing here is dressed up as a charitable gift. The public site, the live directory and calendar, the blog, and the online edition are live today; a school’s own custom domain is early access, and this page labels which is which.