Programs & school life
Lower, middle, and upper school plus arts, athletics, STEM, advisory, clubs, and service learning as first-class content.
Schools & Education
AcademyPress
A collegiate, welcoming WordPress theme for private schools and academies — programs, school life, faculty, student stories, governed key dates, and campus-tour booking. No page builder required.
by StretchWP · 1.0.0 · Updated Jul 2026
SchoolAcademyPrivate SchoolEducationK-12Admissions
academypress.stretchwp.ca
Fully populated demo — click through every page in the live preview.
Screenshots
Every template, production-ready.
These are real pages from the live demo — not mockups.
Overview
AcademyPress gives an independent school a website that reads as established, warm, and confident — a collegiate navy-and-crimson palette, editorial headlines, and admissions woven through every page, with none of the mortarboard-clip-art clichés. A hybrid Gutenberg theme, not a page-builder starter.
Everything a school needs is modeled in native WordPress: programs (lower through upper school, arts, athletics, STEM), school life, faculty & staff, news & stories, and campuses as first-class content types with shared taxonomies — no ACF, no Elementor, no third-party form plugin.
Booking a campus tour is the emphasized path, backed by a native validated form; a governed key-dates page keeps admissions deadlines honest — a date only shows verified when its source and reviewer are present.
Native tour booking
The admissions path — real validation, an error summary, and a success state, written for prospective families.
Governed key dates
Admissions deadlines fail closed — a date only shows verified when its source and reviewer are present.
Claim-safe storytelling
Student stories are warm and illustrative; no accreditation or outcome claims presented as real.
Self-hosted fonts
Newsreader, Source Sans 3, and IBM Plex Mono served locally — zero Google-CDN calls, GDPR-friendly.
Accessible & translation-ready
WCAG 2.2 AA intent throughout, every string internationalized, escaped output and sanitized input.
What’s included
Everything to launch
- Theme files — installable .zip, ready for any WordPress 6.4+ site
- AcademyPress Core plugin — content types, taxonomies, and the governed key-dates page
- One-click demo content — the full Westbrook Academy flagship
- Documentation — setup, menus, content types, Customizer, forms
- Six months support — from the StretchWP team
- One-click install — push straight to your managed StretchWP site
Specifications
Technical details
| Version | 1.0.0 |
|---|---|
| Last update | Jul 2026 |
| Released | Jul 2026 |
| WordPress | 6.4 – 6.8 |
| Requires PHP | 8.1+ |
| Layout | Responsive |
| Page builder | Not required |
| WooCommerce | Ready |
| Documentation | Included |
| License | Single / Extended |
Tags
SchoolAcademyPrivate SchoolEducationK-12AdmissionsCampusFacultyStudentsCollegiateWordPressResponsive
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