COUNCILLORS are set to join the team running a new Huddersfield school.

Three months ago Holmfirth High School won permission to take on the governance of the new school serving the north of Huddersfield.

The University of the First Age; Parents of Black Children Association; Kirklees Active Leisure and Cummins Turbo Technologies are also involved in the new school, which will be set up on the site of the existing Fartown High School.

Kirklees Council will decide next week whether to sign on as a trustee of the new school.

The council’s Labour Cabinet will rule on the matter at Huddersfield Town Hall at 4pm today.

The new school will be set up at Fartown High in September but may move to a purpose-built site elsewhere in north Huddersfield if funds become available.

The council decided in February to close Fartown High because it was consistently under-subscribed. There are currently just 400 pupils at a site with room for 900.