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Petition update, 01 February 2008

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A top-performing school has been told it could be shut down and replaced with a new school.

If the closure goes ahead, St Joseph's College, in Trent Vale, could be forced to ditch its grammar school status and become a Catholic comprehensive instead.

This will result in families from Newcastle, the Moorlands, Stafford, Stone and south Cheshire being denied places there in future. At the moment, around 60 per cent of 11 to 16-year-olds at the school live outside the city boundaries.

The future of St Joseph's is tied up in a £200 million scheme to transform secondary education. Heads were today being called to a meeting with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and private firm Serco to be briefed on the latest plans.

But Ms Maguire,the head teacher, found out by chance last week that her own school, which has 950 pupils, is in the frame for possible closure.

With its amazing examination results at GCSE and A level the closure will be a disaster to its community and must be kept open at all costs, so please help.

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