How to Add a New School
1. Within a state, click the Schools tab
2. Click Manage Schools, then click Add School
3. Fill out page using these Bound standards - use upper and lower case, Proper Case when filling out this page except in the handle/slug and abbreviation fields.
Bound School Name
Drop the words High School, Senior, Upper
Exception: If you have a HS and MS with the same name (ie: Clinton HS and Clinton MS) then add HS and MS behind the school name.
Okay to have County, Community, Charter, Academy etc
If there are multiple schools with the same name add the name of the city at the end, but do not use dashes or parenthesis to separate it from the school name.
St. or Saint. If it is abbreviated keep it abbreviated. If it is spelled out, spell it out
If it is a Junior High or Middle School abbreviate to JH and MS after the name
If the name has initials in it or looks like it is the name of a person... ask ChatGPT "what does the community/school/parents call (insert complete school name and state here)". It scans the web and social medias (X and Facebook) and will tell you if they go by Roosevelt High School or Theodore Roosevelt High School. I also look at their website too.
Mascot - enter the name of the mascot in the first field. When it saves, it will fill in female and male. You only need to add something in there if it is different.
Abbreviation - first letter for each of the words in the school - all caps. Try to keep to 3-5 characters So Rose Hill High School becomes RHHS, kyline High School becomes SHS (Don't include the words senior or upper when doing the abbreviation.)
Handle/slug - Preferably 8-11 characters no more than 15. Take the Bound school name all lower case, remove any dashes and spaces between words and abbreviate high school to hs or middle school to ms to create a slug. So Linn-Mar High School becomes a slug of linnmarhs.
DOE - leave blank. It will default to school name
Time Zone
Address - Bound can only use street addresses in order to map the locations for events
Beds Count - leave this blank. If we have a state association that is a customer for the state, they will fill that in.
If the school is a high school or middle school, check the box "Member (School is official member of the state)". If it is an elementary do not check the box.
Check the box "Publicly Searchable"
Associations - select Include for Bound if the state has it. Then for the association the school is a member of check include and member. Leave others blank.
Check the boxes for the grades covered at that school. Even if it is not a part of a district
Check the box show on public districts page so that it if it is ever added it will show automatically.
Click Create
4. Click the Design tab to add school colors and logos. Use the templates in Canva (refer to this help doc for CANVA logo how to).
Small Logo = 96 x 96 px
Large Logo = 480 x 480 px
Add colors based on Hex #'s used in the logo.
5. Add the School's venue to their admin page.
(Same address as the school set up information.)
Click on Dashboard and go into the school
Click on Venues
Click the "Add Venue" button in the upper righthand corner.
In the "Find Venue" field, search for your venue. You can also use the "Can't find your venue?" option to enter the location manually!
