Design study · K-12 charter network · South Carolina
Tuition-free K-12, where students power what's next
A redesign concept for a renewable-energy STEM charter network of seven campuses, where the site's job is converting interest into enrollment without hiding the details families need.
Concept only. Facts come from the network's published site and documents; this is not the official GREEN Charter Schools website.
- School website design
- Campus finder
- Enrollment-first
- Ask surface
- Document library
- Accessibility audit
GREEN Charter Schools — open the working site
Case study overview
The problem
A tuition-free charter network competes for enrollment against districts with far larger communications budgets, and its website usually loses on the two things that decide a family's choice: is there a campus near me at my child's grade level, and can I see the handbook, calendar, and policies before I commit. Those live in a PDF folder if they are published at all.
The approach
A Find Your Campus finder filters all seven real campuses by region or grade band, answering the near-me question directly rather than through a list of addresses. The front desk is enrollment-first, and an answer-first Ask GREEN is grounded in the network's real enrollment, handbook, calendar, and policy documents with source cards — so a parent's question about attendance policy or the school calendar returns the actual document rather than marketing copy. A real document library publishes the family handbook, financials, and board minutes as first-class content, which for a charter network is also an accountability posture. An honest before-and-after accessibility audit accompanies it.
The result
Eleven routes covering campuses, enrollment, families, documents, and search, with a verified seven-campus finder and a measured accessibility comparison.
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