A Homeroom Sites demonstration
Riverbend isn’t a real district.
It’s what yours could look like.
Everything you just clicked through (the calendar, the staff directory, the document library, the snow-day banner) is a working template built by Homeroom Sites, a New Jersey studio that builds and runs websites for K-12 districts. This is the actual product, not a slideshow.
The short version
Half the price. A person, not a ticket queue. Same-day changes. Compliance guaranteed in writing.
Built for the small NJ district where the website is a secretary’s side duty, because that is exactly who we built it for.
Why districts switch
What you get that Apptegy, Finalsite, and Edlio don’t give you
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About half the price
A single-school district pays $2,900/yr where Apptegy charges ~$5,900. You are not billed per student: a website does not cost more because you enroll more kids.
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A person, not a ticket queue
You email one sentence ("close school Tuesday," "add this board packet") and a real person makes the change. No portal to learn, no support tier, no two-week vendor queue.
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Same-day when it counts
The emergency banner is yours to flip from your phone in about ten seconds. Routine changes land in two to three business days: faster than you are used to.
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Compliance in writing
Every site ships at WCAG 2.1 AA with a signed VPAT/ACR. You are covered for the April 2028 ADA Title II deadline, guaranteed on paper, not "best effort."
Pricing
Priced per site, not per student
One honest number, published here. No “request a quote” maze, no per-enrollment surcharge, no surprise renewal jump.
| One-time setup | Per year | |
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| Base: district site (or a single school) | $3,500 | $2,900 |
| Each additional school site | +$1,500 | +$900 |
Setup includes migrating up to 40 existing pages per site. Founding districts (our first one or two) lock a discounted rate for three years in exchange for a case study.
1 school · ~700 students
$2,900 / yr with us
Apptegy ≈ $5,900 / yr
5 schools · ~3,500 students
$6,500 / yr with us
Apptegy ≈ $15,000 / yr
Every annual plan includes
- Managed hosting, SSL, and a global CDN
- Unlimited routine content changes
- Same-day emergency support
- Ongoing accessibility monitoring
- A signed VPAT / accessibility conformance report
- Annual increase capped at 3% / CPI
Turnaround
Changes that keep up with a school year
Emergencies are rare by design (a static site has almost nothing to break, and the banner is already in your hands), so a same-day promise is one a full-time educator can actually rely on.
| Request | What it covers | Turnaround | Notes |
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| Emergency | Site down, or wrong safety-critical information | Same business day | 4-hour target |
| Routine change | News post, calendar, staff update, document | 2–3 business days | Unlimited, included |
| New page or section | A new program area, a redesign, a feature | 5–10 business days | Quoted per project |
How a change happens
You send a sentence. We do the rest.
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You send a sentence
Email your request in plain language, or update the emergency banner yourself from the phone form.
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We draft it that hour
Your note becomes a tracked change against your site: most requests are ready to review the same day.
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It goes live
Reviewed, deployed to a static site with essentially nothing to break, and you get a link back. Done.
There is no chatbot with keys to your website, and no client-facing AI making edits on its own. A person reviews every change before it goes live. Your site holds no student data and no database: nothing to breach, no plugins to patch, no logins to leak.
Start here: it’s free
Get a free accessibility scan of your current site
Send us the address of your district’s website. We’ll run it against WCAG 2.1 AA and send back a plain-English report of exactly what a demand letter would flag: no cost, no obligation, whether or not you ever hire us.
or email us directly
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