A new £50 million school is due to be built to replace a failing High Wycombe school.
Hatters Lane School is due to close in August 2001 after receiving a damning Ofsted report in January.
Buckinghamshire County Council plans to open a new school on the same site in September 2001. It will then spend £50 million on the new school and is seeking private finance to fund it.
Peter Mooney, the council's assistant director for education, said the building would not be completed until 2006, but in the interim, the school would be housed at the existing Hatters Lane building which would be upgraded.
Hatters Lane was placed on special measures after inspectors identified a serious drop in education standards and pupil numbers from 900 to 450.
The county council set up a commission to explore ways of improving education at the school and will announce its proposals in October.
See Friday's Bucks Free Press for full story.
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