A number of schools teach web design using frameworks like React or Sveltekit. Does your school have a course for making Wordpress websites or CMS websites in general? The idea of being able to handoff a website to a customer and they can update it, seems more reasonable for high school students and businesses.
Students would learn how to make a basic Wordpress site:
- host it locally
- publish it to a hosting site
- use themes like Elemental or Divi
- add plugins (but not too many)
- make websites for local businesses
- learn the basics of HTML, CSS, and JS