County criticises closure proposal
Plans to close a Corby Glen school and move pupils and staff 11 miles away to Grantham have been criticised by the county council.
The West Grantham Academies Trust announced this week that Charles Read Academy in Corby Glen will shut by September 2014.
The 230 pupils at Charles Read will transfer to the West Grantham Academy St Hugh’s.
In 2011, the school became an academy, and therefore independent of Lincolnshire County Council, and joined the trust.
Academies trust chief executive officer Trudy Brothwell said she believed the move would “increase opportunities for the Charles Read Academy students”.
But Lincolnshire County Council has criticised the decision.
Executive councillor for children’s services, coun Patricia Bradwell (Con), said: “To place Charles Read pupils at St Hugh’s would result in young people travelling vast distances to school and we do not think that parents would want this.”
There will be no job losses as a result of the closure of Charles Read.
Additional classroom space is already available to cope with the addition of 230 Charles Read pupils, as the two primary schools under the trust have merged.
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