Super school for Felixstowe........how long before Haverhill and Sudbury suffer the same fate?!

A report by Felixstowe TV has confirmed that plans to close two secondary schools in the town and open a new super school have been give the go ahead. Despite parents concerns and 67% saying the school would be too large, SCC have given the go ahead. The report reads:-


Plans to merge Felixstowe's two high schools into one new superschool for over 1,800 students are being recommended to be given the go-ahead at a Suffolk County Council Cabinet meeting next Tuesday.

The council is planning to close Orwell and Deben High Schools, to be replaced by one new secondary and sixth form (age 11 - 19) school, on the Orwell site between Maidstone Road and Walton High Street. The proposal is part of the government's national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, involving the rebuilding, remodelling or refurbishment of secondary schools across the country, focussed around changing the way that learning takes place.

A total of 564 parents, carers and local residents responsed to a 12-week consultation during the autumn. Of those who responded, just over half (53%) said their preference would be to keep the two schools, with 47% saying there should be a single secondary school for Felixstowe and Trimley. Two thirds of those who responded (67%) said one school with 1,800 students would be too large. Six out of ten said that they were concerned (22%) or very concerned (37.5%) by the loss of parental choice of school if Deben and Orwell became a single school.


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