A primary school is planning to take on an extra 210 pupils as part of efforts to ease the city’s soaring demand for places.
Fernwood Primary School in Wollaton will expand to cater for 1,050 children instead of 840.
The city council announced the move after a big rise in the number of children in the school’s catchment area in the last year.
It has already taken on an extra reception class this year, but the authority says more needs to be done.
Coun Sam Webster, Portfolio Holder for Schools, said: “The national shortage of primary school places has been reflected across Nottingham and extra capacity has been added in many schools.
“In the Wollaton area the number of pupils seeking school places has grown and we need to meet this demand.
“Fernwood Primary is an outstanding school, very popular and is always massively over-subscribed, with waiting lists across the year groups.”
More places are still needed to meet the significant increase in the number of local children requiring a school place.
Coun Sam Webster
The school recently amalgamated infant and junior schools to become one primary.
If the plan goes ahead infant classrooms will be complete for September 2016 and the junior classrooms for September 2017.
A public consultation on the plan is being run up until Sunday, October 18.
The Arleston Drive School is also building a new nursery, due be finished by Christmas and open in January.
There has been an 18 per cent increase in reception class-age children in Nottingham since 2010, from 3,254 to 3,819 pupils.
