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Somerset schoolchildren with additional needs could soon be educated a lot closer to home.

Several primary schools in rural Somerset may have to close in the next few years as the county’s birthrate continues to fall.

MARTOCK-Ash Academy, planning to open in 2023, is currently seeking consult from the public to support the opening of the school.

NEW SCHOOL: Site near A303 between Ash and Tintinhull. Pic: Google Maps A NEW school for more than 100 pupils will open near to the A303 by 2023. Somerset County Council has successfully convinced the Department for Education (DfE) to build a new specialist free school west of the existing dual carriageway between the villages of Ash and Tintinhull near Yeovil. The new school will be constructed by the DfE and provide more than 100 places for children with “social, emotional and mental health needs” between the ages of five and 16. The school will be managed by the Wave Multi-Acad...

NEW SCHOOL: Site near A303 between Ash and Tintinhull. Pic: Google Maps A NEW school for more than 100 pupils will open near to the A303 by 2023. Somerset County Council has successfully convinced the Department for Education (DfE) to build a new specialist free school west of the existing dual carriageway between the villages of Ash and Tintinhull near Yeovil. The new school will be constructed by the DfE and provide more than 100 places for children with “social, emotional and mental health needs” between the ages of five and 16. The school will be managed by the Wave Multi-Acad...