20+ Top Education WordPress Themes: To Make School Sites

In this article, I’ll show you a selection of online education WordPress themes so that you can select the best WordPress theme for your school website.
Running a school is complicated; whether it be a kindergarten, a university, or somewhere in betwe…


This content originally appeared on Envato Tuts+ Tutorials and was authored by Brittany Jezouit

In this article, I'll show you a selection of online education WordPress themes so that you can select the best WordPress theme for your school website.

Running a school is complicated; whether it be a kindergarten, a university, or somewhere in between (not to mention online courses, MOOCs, and speciality schools!). WordPress is ideal for school sites because it’s customizable and adaptable. Maybe you run events, in which case you’ll need an event calendar. Have smart students on your campus? You should include a blog for student writing and perspectives. Selling your own webinars online? You’ll need a way to process those payments.

WordPress can do all of that, and starting with a WordPress theme custom-built for education and school sites is a simple shortcut (don’t worry, it’s not cheating!).

Best WordPress Education Themes for Making a School Website 

Themeforest is the only place to look for education WordPress themes and has hundreds of great Premium WordPress themes to provide a starting point for your school website. 

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Education WordPress themes available on Themeforest

In this post we’re going to list our favorite education WordPress themes–categories include: schools for kids (kindergartens), university websites, speciality/niche school sites, and online learning.

Our editorial team keeps this post regularly updated, with older and obsolete themes being removed, and the newest and most popular WordPress themes added.

For the Kids (Kindergarten School Websites)

1. Baby Kids—Education Primary School for Children

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Baby Kids - Education Primary School For Children

This theme is a top-seller with a strong rating. It comes with all the best plugins, including Visual Composer, Revolution Slider, WooCommerce, and WPML Multilingual. You can also hire the makers to install it for you through Envato Studio. Either way, this is a great choice for any kindergarten school website template.

2. Preschool—Nurseries Kindergarten and School WordPress Theme

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Preschool - Nurseries Kindergarten and School WordPress Theme

Bright colors and bold sections make this website well-suited for preschool and kindergarten schools.

3. Carry Hill School—WordPress Education Theme

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Carry Hill School - Responsive Wordpress Theme

The demo site for this WordPress theme is an elementary school, but with its class timetables and eCommerce support, it could also work for more complex sites.

4. Smarty—School Kindergarten WordPress Theme

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Smarty - Kindergarten, School, High school, College, University WordPress theme

Smarty has demo sites for kindergarten, schools, and universities. It comes with four predefined color skins, so you know you’ll end up with a color scheme that’s designer-approved.

5. Enfant—School and Kindergarten WordPress Theme

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Enfant - School and Kindergarten WordPress Theme

A pixel-perfect theme that comes with a simple video installation tutorial and premium plugins. Like all of the themes on this list, it’s mobile-friendly and responsive.

6. Fable—Children Kindergarten WordPress Theme

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Fable | Children Kindergarten WordPress Theme

Fable is made for kids. It’s bright and fun, with more than 47 ready to use page templates. You can import pre-made demo content easily with a single click, using the Theme demo data installer and benefit from a fully-functional site in a matter of minutes.

High School and University Website WordPress Themes

7. University of Education WordPress Theme—Courses Management WP

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University of Education WordPress Theme - Courses Management WP

Built with Bootstrap, this university-level website has teacher profiles, online shops, quizzes, events, and more. The photo gallery on the home page is a great way to showcase the personality of your school.

8. School Time—Modern Education WordPress Theme

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School Time - Modern Education WordPress Theme

With two demo layouts and a drag-and-drop page builder, this WordPress theme is super easy to customize. Add Google Maps, contact forms, and Font Awesome typography.

This makes for a great primary school Wordpress Theme. One of the best!

9. Ed School—Education WordPress Theme

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Ed School: Education, Elementary-High School WordPress Theme

This is one of my favorites on the list; a simple, stylish theme that rivals the design of a tech or business website. There’s a list of websites using this theme on the product page, so you can check out real-life examples for inspiration.

The best primary school Wordpress theme for a professional school website. Astounding!

Themes for Specialized & Niche School Types

10. Dance Studio—WordPress Theme for Dancing Schools and Clubs

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Dance Studio - WordPress Theme for Dancing Schools & Clubs

Running a dance website means your website can’t be uncool. This layout is interesting without being too confusing or complicated.

11. Lighthouse—School for Kids With Special Needs WordPress Theme

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Lighthouse | School for Kids with Special Needs

A website built for a schools or kindergartens for children with special needs. It’s compatible with ThemeREX Donations plugin and has a powerful, fully responsive framework.

12. Melody—School of Arts and Music School WordPress Theme

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Melody - Music School WordPress Theme

Need to book private music lessons, offer group classes, and add audio to your site? If you’re making a music school website, check out this theme, Melody.

13. Driveme—Driving School WordPress Theme

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Driveme - Driving School WordPress Theme

This WordPress theme is highly rated for its support team. It was a winner in the category of “Best Education & Learning Theme” for the Envato Most Wanted contest.

14. Language School—Courses and Learning Management System

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Language School - Courses and Learning Management System

Language School – Courses & Learning Management System is a WordPress Theme that's a powerful tool to create a website for any school, courses, training or other learning and education website. 

The theme features functionality that will satisfy any learning, teaching and other education needs, including Timetable integration

Online Learning Platform WordPress Themes

There are various Learning Management System (LMS) plugins available for WordPress. With them, in combination with a premium WordPress theme, you can build a comprehensive online learning website to host courses, tutorials, curriculums, and whole communities of eager students.

15. Education WordPress Theme—Eduma

Currently shipping version 4.0 Eduma has been one of the most popular education WordPress themes on Themeforest for a long time. With over 20k downloads, and an almost perfect star rating, the numbers speak for themselves!

Eduma ties in with the author’s own LMS plugin “LearnPress”, allowing you to build your own online learning platform (in any educational niche you choose) with excellent support from the development team.

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Education WordPress Theme | Eduma

16. Skilled—School Education Courses WordPress Theme

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Skilled | School Education Courses WordPress Theme

Okay, now we’re getting into the more complicated website types: learning management systems (LMS) and online courses. Skilled, a theme from elite WordPress designer Aislin, is one of the top sellers in this category–it’s a great starting point for any LMS website.

17. Elysian—WordPress School Theme and LMS

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Elysian - WordPress School Theme

A WordPress theme that’s easy to install, with modern typography choices and standout design.

18. Course and LMS WordPress Theme—CBKit

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WordPress LMS Theme for Online Courses, Schools & Education | Course Builder

This course builder supports online webinars, comments, email notifications, sales on courses, subscriptions, and more. This is ideal if you’re a teacher or starting your own online school/classes.

Ideal for an online education WordPress theme with a clean and responsive look.

19. Guru—LMS, Sensei WordPress

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Guru | Learning Management WordPress Theme

Guru works with it all: WordPress, WooCommerce, WPML, MailChimp, Sensei, and Event Calendar. There’s super-detailed documentation, course analytics, grading, and it’s SEO-friendly.

20. WPLMS—Learning Management System

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WPLMS | Learning Management System

WPLMS is an enterprise-grade learning management system for WordPress that's built on BuddyPress and WooCommerce it provides the best of Social and eCommerce sites.

From Fortune 500 companies to several thousands of successful educational startups around the world, WPLMS is the number one choice.

21. Masterstudy—Education WordPress Theme

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Masterstudy - Education WordPress Theme

Whether you specialize in local workshops or online courses – MasterStudy is the only theme you need to build a vibrant and compelling learning hub.

Based on extensive research into the education and learning industry, it's been developed with a range of first-class features to make your life easier—saving you time and delivering excellent results. 

Inspiring Education Websites in the Wild

Having walked through the best education WordPress themes available on Envato Market, let’s take a look at some standout examples of education websites to see how others do it:

edX

edX.org is one of the largest online course providers in the world. Their homepage is simple and actionable, and highlights the credibility of their courses.

William and Mary

A top liberal arts university in the United States (and, okay, my alma Mater), William and Mary’s website is a recent redesign. It ties in their newest “For The Bold” marketing campaign, uses school colors as accents, and has consistent branding throughout the site.

Code Like a Girl

Code Like a Girl runs coding workshops for young women. Their website is stylish, fast-loading, and user-friendly–all “must-haves” for any website, but especially important for a company that works in the web development space.

More WordPress Education Themes

Here are a few more WordPress theme picks that we couldn’t fit on the list, plus some additional roundups which might suit your niche even more perfectly:

Also check out these useful articles:

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Editorial Note: This post has been updated with contributions from Johnny Winter. Johnny is a staff writer with Envato Tuts+.


This content originally appeared on Envato Tuts+ Tutorials and was authored by Brittany Jezouit


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