Make Your School Look Amazing & Fill Every Class

Expert digital marketing for UK primary schools, secondary schools and nurseries. Stunning websites, videos, photography - and proven systems to attract new students.

Filling school classes since 2018

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Your school is brilliant. Do local parents know?

Most half-empty schools aren't unpopular — they're invisible. We're a small, experienced studio that makes sure local families see your school the way you do: with websites, video, photography, and an admissions system that fills classes.

What we do Fill your class
Happy pupils in a school classroom setup

A small shop, on purpose

We're not an agency with account managers and a sales team. We're the people who do the work — and we've been doing it for schools for the best part of a decade, as the schools arm of an established London marketing agency. You get senior people, straight answers, and work we're happy to put our name on.

Our services

Four ways we make sure parents know

School Websites

The first visit parents make is online. We build fast, mobile-friendly WordPress sites designed around prospective parents, meeting every DfE requirement — with training so your office can run it themselves.

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Promotional Video

A professionally shot film that shows families the feel of your school — the thing no prospectus can capture. For your website, your open days and your advertising.

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School Photography

Natural, joyful photographs of your school, your pupils and your staff — the raw material every bit of your marketing is built from.

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The falling rolls problem — our specialist subject

There are fewer children starting school each year, and nowhere is the squeeze harder than London: around 90 schools have closed or merged in five years, and every school is competing for a shrinking pool of families.

That's the scenario we've worked in since 2018. We look after two neighbouring Lambeth primaries that compete with each other for the same families — and across the best part of a decade we've kept both schools' numbers strong, with full Reception classes the norm rather than the exception. Both schools are open, thriving and busy in a borough where plenty aren't. We've used the same system to transform entries at other schools too.

We published exactly how we do it — every step, every ad, every number — in our 2019 case study:

83%
more applications
53 → 97
applications in one cycle
~£1,000
ad spend, published case study
Jayne Mitchell Portrait

"The success of this campaign far exceeded our expectations. We couldn't let our falling school roll problem continue, so we put our faith in the plan they devised. They exceeded our expectations and fixed our problem."

Jayne Mitchell, Headteacher, St Andrew's C of E Primary, Lambeth

Honest by design

We've helped many schools fix their marketing problem and fill their classes. We'll show you exactly what we've done for schools like yours, tell you straight whether we can help — and if your problem isn't one marketing can fix, we'll say so before you spend anything.

Make sure parents know.

Whether it's a website, a film, a photo library or a class that needs filling.

020 8830 7831 [email protected]
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