STRATTON Primary School will potentially reduce the admission numbers for its reception class for 2019-20, after news arrived that funds would no longer be allocated to expand the school.

The school is now in consultation to reduce the Planned Admission Number (PAN) from 60 to 45, after it announced on its Facebook page that the school would no longer be receiving an expansion.

The expansion was revealed in 2016, which outlined plans to provide 2,500 additional pupil places by September 2018 across Cornwall through a £40-million investment programme.

Stratton Primary School was included in this, with plans to make internal alterations of the adjoining Gregson Centre to provide three additional classrooms. This will no longer take place.

Phil Aldis, headteacher of Stratton Primary School, said: “The governors have been informed by the Local Authority that funds are not available for the continuing expansion of Stratton School. Without additional classroom space, they can see no choice but to contract the number of pupils they will admit to the school in the future.”