The report will provide the Committee with an update on current and forecast pupil numbers at Brewers Hill Middle School following the Department for Education’s approval in June 2015 of the application of Beecroft Academy to change its age range and become a Primary School from September 2015. Executive will be asked to consider a recommendation to modify the determined implementation date of the closure of Brewers Hill Community Middle School to August 2016.

1.      That the procedures established by the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (EIA 2006) and The School Organisation (Establishment and Discontinuance of Schools) Regulations 2013, as outlined in the legal implications section of the report, have been complied with in bringing forward the proposal to modify the implementation date of the closure of Brewers Hill Middle School.

2.      That the proposed modification to the determined date of implementation of the closure of Brewers Hill Community Middle School from August 2017 to August 2016 be approved.