Parents fighting to keep Queen Anne School open will be putting their views across to York education chiefs tomorrow night.

The meeting is being held at the school to hear the views of residents on the council's plans to close it and to expand the nearby Canon Lee School with extra classrooms and facilities.

Parents, staff and school governors are all being asked about the proposals as part of a consultation exercise which ends on December 2.

A consultation document about the plans will be going out to all parents this week.

The idea behind the plans is to tackle the high number of surplus secondary school places in the city. Queen Anne School is less than half full with 314 pupils in a 724-place school and Canon Lee, which has 500 places, is full.

But Sheila Evans, chairwoman of Queen Anne's parent teacher association, said many parents believed this was not the answer to the problem of surplus places.

"We will be saying what we've always said, that we don't want the school to close and there is no reason for it to close."

The meeting tomorrow (Tuesday, November 9th) starts at 7pm. There will be another consultation meeting at Canon Lee School on Wednesday, November 18, at 7pm.

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