Concerned parents who have vowed to save a Wolverhampton primary school threatened with closure are to step up their campaign in the run-up to a crunch meeting over its future.
Education chiefs at Wolverhampton Council have launched a consultation over proposals to shut Ettingshall Primary School in August next year.
Worried parents have already organised a leaflet drop and petition in their fight to keep it open. They are now gearing up for the meeting on October 17, where councillors will decide whether to move ahead to the next step of the closure procedure or abandon plans to axe the 70-year-old school, which has been placed in special measures.
Over the next couple of weeks parents will be meeting to put pen to paper on their thoughts on why the school should stay open, which will be passed on to council bosses.
They are also taking legal advice on other alternatives to the closure of the school.
Campaigner Lindsay Blake said: “We will be going to Bilston with our petitions and are also calling on as many parents as possible to go along to the meeting.”
The council says it must act to tackle falling numbers in the Ettingshall ward and the school was automatically considered for closure after being placed into special measures by Ofsted.
Ettingshall Primary currently has less than 200 children studying there, even though it can accommodate in the region of 300.
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thats school must be good if it has stayed open for 70 years
it has been a tradition for children to go to school
why stop it??
i give the vote to leave it open