Falling Pupil Numbers Threaten Secondary Schools
Posted on: Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 12:00 CDT
SIX Liverpool high schools could close in the next three years due to plummeting pupil numbers.
Teaching union the NASUWT warned some secondaries were losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in funding because they could not attract enough pupils. Cllr Paul Clein, executive member for education, said he thought only one or two schools would close, although he did not know which ones.
Campion RC high, Parklands high, De La Salle and Fazakerley high are among schools suffering poor admission rates. John Hayes, secretary of Liverpool NASUWT, said: "Schools get so much funding per pupil but some are getting low numbers of admissions.
"Any school attracting fewer than 100 new pupils a year is in big trouble." There has been 1,000 fewer pupils in the secondary school system every year since 2000.
A council spokesman said an independent report showed Parklands and Fazakerley would be viable for the next 25 years
Source: Liverpool Echo
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