School with Two Pupils Saved
Published: October 27, 2004
A school which has only two pupils will be allowed to stay open, it was announced today.
Shetland Council threw out proposals to close five rural primary schools and one secondary school at a meeting in Lerwick today.
Among those was Scotland’s smallest secondary school which sits on one of the islands of Skerries.
Parents and children gathered at Lerwick Town Hall this morning to state their opposition to the school closure plans.
The islands of Skerries lie 24 miles north east of Lerwick and represent a fishing community with a population of 70.
Shetland councillor Drew Ratter said: “There was a proposal to stop providing secondary education at Skerries School and they decided on a narrow vote to carry on providing secondary education at Skerries.”
He said that although the provision of secondary education at Skerries had hung in the balance, at no time was the primary part of the school ever under threat of closure.
The local authority currently delivers its education service through a network of 34 schools but said this is no longer financially viable.
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