Best Education WordPress Themes

education wordpress themes

This is a collection of the best education WordPress themes built for university, college, school, online learning and other education and academic websites.

WordPress is the ideal platform to build an education website because its free, open source and has a huge community around it. Plus there are heaps of great education themes and plugins available.

The premium and free education WordPress themes below have designs suited for education websites, and some include specific features required in an education or school website such as custom post types for course and events pages, staff member pages, galleries, blogs and more. A few also have responsive designs so will work and look good on all screen sizes and mobile devices.

The education WordPress themes below will help you get a professional looking website up quickly, easily and cheaply for your school, college, university or other education institution.

Education Pro

Education Pro is a premium education WordPress theme that runs of the Genesis Framework from StudioPress. The theme is ideal for elementary schools, high schools, colleges, universities and other education institutions. Its mobile friendly with a responsive design and has a custom homepage with featured slider and sections for other information and news. Some of the other key features of the theme include: education themed icons, 5 colour styles, 6 layout options, custom backgrounds and menus, HTML5 markup, landing page template, theme options and all the other great features and benefits of the core Genesis Framework.

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School

School is an education WordPress theme from Pixel Emu. The premium theme has a been designed specifically for universities, colleges, education institutes, primary schools, high schools, kindergartens, and other education websites. It comes with lots of handy settings and features specifically for school websites. It comes with handy solutions to display school activities, teacher profile pages, school programs, class info and more. It also has lots of configuration and customization options for layouts, colors, fonts, slider, Google maps, post and page settings and more. It’s also an accessibility ready WordPress theme which means it follows WCAG (Section508) recommendations to create the site for people with disabilities.

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Elementary

Elementary is a premium education theme for WordPress designed specifically for universities, colleges, schools, technical institutes, and other education institutions. The premium theme from Academia Themes has a modern and professional design and is mobile friendly with a responsive layout. It has a number of education specific features built in including custom page templates to display course directories and details, staff directories, testimonials, upcoming events, and photo galleries. Some of the other features include: video support, easy customisation options and unlimited colour variations, WPML multi-language support, right to left language support, a completely customisable widgetized homepage, theme options and more.

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Lectura

Lectura is a modern WordPress education theme from Academia Themes with a responsive design, 2 column layout, video support, unlimited colour variations and easy customization options. Education specific features including custom page templates to display course directories and details, staff directories, testimonials, and photo galleries. Some of the other features in the theme include: a mobile responsive layout, RTL and multi-language support, custom widgets, theme options and more.

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Erudito

Erudito is a modern and solid WordPress theme designed for education and business websites. The premium theme from WPZOOM is ideal for a university, college, school and other education websites, but also will look great for any type of business website. It has a mobile responsive layout so it works great on any screen size or mobile device. The theme also has 12 colour schemes, a dynamic homepage builder so you can build your own layout with custom widgets, a featured content slider, and an advanced WPZOOM framework and options panel to easily customize every detail of your theme to best suit your needs.

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Education WordPress Theme

A WordPress theme designed for schools, colleges and other education institutions. The premium child theme for the StudioPress Genesis Theme Framework features a custom homepage to effectively convey important information and direct visitors to the information they are looking for. The theme has a mobile responsive design and features include 6 colour styles, 6 layout options, custom background and menus, theme options and more.

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Principal

The versatile Principal WordPress theme from Academia Themes has a classic two column layout and responsive design, 8 built in colour styles, unlimited colour styles, customisation options, RTL and multi-language support, custom widgets, theme options and more. Some of the education specific features include: custom page templates to display course directories and details, staff directories, testimonials, and photo galleries.

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Capital

Capital is a responsive multi-purpose WordPress theme ideal for education and organization websites. The premium theme from WPZOOM has a contemporary and professional design that would work well for university, college and school websites as well as organizations such as charities and non profits.

It has a custom homepage layout with featured slider and sections for information about your school or organization, upcoming events, news, media and links to other sections or departments in the website. The theme is retina and mobile friendly with a responsive design and the WPZOOM framework with the WordPress visual customizer offers advanced options to easily manage and customise the website.

Some of the other key features of the theme include: events integration (via the free Events Calendar Plugin), dynamic widgetzied homepage builder, full width slider, blog section, custom shortcodes, menu management, HTML5 and CSS3 code, translation options, a selection of pre-made layouts for posts and pages, custom backgrounds, logo and more.

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Foundation

Foundation is a premium education WordPress theme from Academia Themes specifically designed for universities, schools, colleges, technical institutes, and other academic institutions and non-profit organizations. The theme has a modern flat design with a three column layout. It’s also 100% responsive ensuring it works and displays perfectly on all computers, tablets and mobile devices. The Foundation theme has numerous education website specific features including custom page templates to display course directories and details, staff directories, testimonials, and photo galleries. The theme also includes numerous custom widgets, a blog section, right to left language and multi-language support, automatic image resizing, 4 built in colour styles and unlimited colour customisation options, theme options and more.

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Education Academy

Education Academy is a commercial WordPress theme from Templatic designed for education websites. The theme has a clean design and is suitable for faculties, universities, colleges and high schools. It has a completely widgetized homepage and comes with several built-in post types for courses, staff members, facilities and galleries. Other features include unlimited colour scheme options with a backend colour picker, multiple layout options, and a mobile responsive design.

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EduPress

EduPress is a versatile premium WordPress education theme from WPZOOM designed for universities, colleges, schools, etc. The easy to customise CMS theme includes a featured slider for images or video, 7 custom widgets, easy logo input, custom post / page layouts, an options panel to easily customise the theme and more.

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College

College is a mobile responsive education WordPress theme built for schools, colleges, universities and other education and learning establishments. The premium theme from 7Theme has a custom homepage with featured slider and sections to display classes, staff, and testimonials or other information. The theme includes some specific education features including an ajax powered schedule and custom post types for classes, locations and instructors so you can showcase your classes and courses. Some of the other features include: full customization options for colours, fonts, backgrounds etc, drag and drop slider, mega menu, 600+ webfonts, unlimited sections and portfolios, custom sidebars, custom logo and favicon, retina ready icons and more.

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School

The School theme from MyThemeShop is a premium WordPress theme designed for elementary and primary schools, day care centers, crèche, kindergartens and other education establishments and programs. It has an education oriented design with a clean and light color scheme and custom post types to display information about your school.

Some of the key features of the theme include: a mobile friendly responsive design, custom post types for events and gallery, unlimited color options, Google fonts, custom slider, HTML5 and CSS3, testimonials section, open hours widget and 15 other useful widgets, retina font icons, mega menu, and more.

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Universidad

A flexible CMS premium WordPress theme from Viva Themes which could be used for business, organization or corporate sites, education institutions websites etc. The theme is easy to customise and features an attractive slider on the homepage, custom login panel, drop down menus, 6 different page templates & more.

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Academica

A non profit / education WordPress theme from WPZOOM with a modern layout and elegant design. It has a modern 3 column layout and features custom menus, WPZOOM options panel, featured posts slider and more.

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Grand College

Grand College is a clean and modern WordPress theme for School, University, College or even business websites. It has a course table built in, personnel post type, drag and drop page builder, options to change almost every elements colour easily via admin panel, unlimited sidebars, over 450 fonts, support for localization and more.

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Academica Pro

Academica Pro is a flexible and modern WordPress theme with a responsive design from WPZOOM ideal for education websites such as schools, universities and colleges. It will also work nicely for non profit organizations as well as any for-profit business website. Features include: a featured posts slider and a dynamic homepage builder, numerous custom page templates, shortcodes, responsive design, easy colour styling in the theme options pages, translation options, custom background and logo, menu management and more.

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Campus

Campus is a multi-purpose, mobile responsive WordPress theme that could be used for education websites. It has a drag and drop visual composer so you can create your own layouts (1, 2 3 or 4 columns) but to also drop in one of 50+ content modules – including image sliders, tabbed content, text blocks, pricing tables, buttons, notes, quotes, and more. Some of the other features include: dual sidebars, Google fonts, options panel, shortcodes, unlimited colours, multiple sliders, lightbox and more.

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Blackboard

The Blackboard WordPress theme from Academia Themes has a three column design and responsive layout, easy customisation options, unlimited colour variations, RTL and multi-language support, custom widgets, theme options and more. Some of the education features include: custom page templates to display course directories and details, staff directories, testimonials, and photo galleries.

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School Fun

School Fun is a school WordPress theme designed for educational institutions including kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, senior high school, colleges, and universities. The premium theme from Cubic Themes has a professional design and comes in 3 colour scheme variations. Some of the other key features of the theme include: a mobile responsive design, a sticky navigation menu, a custom post type for events, a unique custom post for history so you can present the history of your intuition, event and breadcrumbs with Google rich snippets, and a custom team post type so you can showcase your staff, teachers, and lecturers of your school or your university in detail and in an interesting way.

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MORE THEMES

If you can’t find a suitable theme from the list above its worth having a look at business style themes as they could easily be used for building an education website with the right plugins. See the galleries of:
Business and CMS WordPress Themes
Responsive Business WordPress Themes

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