Merchiston Castle School is an all-boys boarding and day school in Edinburgh with 440 students. The school's mobile-first, modern website design sets a high standard for school websites — not only did it win two prestigious design awards, the website has seen a 54% increase in unique website views and 19% decrease in bounce rate.
Award-Winning Websites for Schools
With over 100 bespoke website design awards, we help independent schools, MATs and school ownership groups market and connect their communities online with a mobile-first website.
Empower Your School To
Attract, engage and retain families with an award-winning website
Simplify communications with affordable, easy-to-use tools designed just for schools
Reimagine your digital strategy with an inspiring bespoke website at the core
Better Communications Start With Better Software.
Finalsite provides the creative services, tools and ongoing support that schools of all sizes require to attract and retain students and faculty. With an easy-to-use CMS, powerful communication tools, secure hosting and dozens of tools for organising content, Finalsite schools gain an edge in competitive markets around the world. Learn how we can help your school boost enrolment, recruit staff, share your values on social media, improve in search rankings, engage alumni and more.
Composer, Finalsite's content management system, provides tools for schools to easily craft engaging and professional website pages to attract and inform your community. No matter your technical ability, you will be creating beautiful pages quickly!
With world-class hosting powered by Google Cloud, we take digital privacy and security very seriously. We continue to invest heavily in software and technology to ensure that personal data is protected and your website is always up and running.
Your school members are often on the go so access to information needs to be fast and easy. Finalsite's communication tools, including our app for iOS and Android, make it easy to get information to your community more effectively and efficiently.
Finalsite understands the complexity of data and recognises that avoiding redundant data entry is important. With over 70 partners, Finalsite works with schools to streamline and connect systems to optimise operations.
Multi-academy trusts and school groups choose Finalsite to provide a scalable platform on which they can add schools and maintain consistent branding and messaging across the organisation.
Our clients will attest to the great support they receive. From solving critical issues 24-7, to helping achieve something new and creative, our team is there to help you launch, maintain and improve your website every day.
What Our Clients Are Saying...
"Our new website was completely worth the investment. Six months on from launch, the number of sessions per month increased by 40%. We can do so much more with our website now, the increased functionality benefits both the school and its end users. I'm very pleased with the final result."
Director of Marketing and External Relations
"There is no other schools web company out there right now which comes close to the customer service, development and user friendly CMS platform of Finalsite."
Philippa J. Scudds, Director of Marketing and Communications
"The hamburger menu represents our four main pillars: academic excellence, co-curricular depth and breadth, dedication to pastoral care, and a strong ethos of social responsibility. Our goal was to emphasise these pillars and give them prominence on the site. We were very excited to receive a Platinum website award in the prestigious MarCom competition.”
Nick Ellwood, Head of Communications
"Finalsite has given us a website with a distinctive design which is much admired within our sector. The speed and ease of use for everybody who interacts with it has been fantastic. Composer is really intuitive to use and this, along with the excellent customer support, has resulted in a great partnership. We now think of Finalsite as very much part of our team.”
Jenny Blaiklock, Director of Development and Communications
"The website is the hub that all our digital marketing drives to; it’s at the centre of all we do."
Sophy Walker, Director of Marketing
"With digital marketing becoming increasingly important, we needed to ensure that our website was fit for purpose. We needed clear branding, clarity of message, modern design, faultless navigation and functionality; if we cannot deliver this, prospective families will seek our competitors’ sites. Finalsite helped us achieve this with our new website."
Tracey Gray, External Relations Manager
You Have Goals. Together, We'll Exceed Them.
Working with some of the top British schools, both in the United Kingdom and around the world, schools choose Finalsite for our award-winning websites as well as our thoughtful, creative, personal and innovative approach to everything we do.
We've helped hundreds of schools like yours:
- Build beautiful, accessible, and mobile-first websites
- Simplify website management
- Improve communications with current and prospective families
- Host safe, secure and compliant websites
- Create a safer, more reliable digital hub for your communications
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