Single campus proposed for King David Schools

The ste of the art campus will incorporate nursery provision, a new all through primary school formed out of an amalgamation of the current separate infant and junior schools, and an 11-18 high school.

The campus would be built on the site of the existing high school.

The chief executive will report to Council members that the building condition survey on the High School shows that the fabric is too poor to make refurbishment a good value-for-money option and the school will need to be rebuilt . A brand new , 5 storey High School would then leave enough space for the new primary school to be on the same site.

Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said:
"Bringing the schools together on one campus makes excellent sense both in educational terms where the advantages of being able to share facilities and resources will benefit teachers and pupils, and also in economic terms - in that the costs of providing a single state of the art campus would be about £3 million less than the costs associated with building two separate schools."

Funding for the new campus would be through Building Schools for the Future for the high school element and through the Government's Primary Capital Programme for the primary school and nursery provision.