Top councillors will be asked to rubber-stamp a plan to merge three Huddersfield schools.
Kirklees Council is proposing to formally merge Thornton Lodge Nursery School, Dryclough Infant School and Crosland Moor Junior School – creating Huddersfield’s biggest primary school of 840 children.
The three schools already share one site and could now be brought together as one primary for children aged 2 to 11, including nursery and childcare places, using their current buildings.
All children who currently attend the schools would automatically become part of the new school, which would be Church of England voluntary controlled.
The change would take place next year when the current schools were legally ‘discontinued’ and brought together as one new school with a different name.
However, their facilities would not close down in any way and children would continue attending school as normal.
A new name for the school has not yet been revealed.
A consultation took place earlier this year and, at a Cabinet meeting on September 22, councillors will give their final decision.
Meanwhile, the council is still working on a plan to create a 630-place new-build primary school on the same site as Moor End Academy to meet the growing demand for primary school places in the Colne Valley area.
There is no final decision on this at the moment but the council has revealed only one organisation has put itself forward to run the school.
A third schools proposal to demolish Mount Pleasant Primary School and build a new school is still in limbo after the cost of relocating Lockwood schoolchildren during a school re-build almost doubled to nearly £4m.
The project would entail setting up a complete temporary school at Rashcliffe to allow work to get under way at the Lockwood Road campus.
