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Ghost town schools: Closures spark warning over families with young children leaving London [Video]

Among the latest London schools to face closure is Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary School in Kidbrooke.

Greenwich council and the Archdiocese of Southwark have announced plans for it to shut at the end of the school year.

The council said despite efforts by the school to encourage more families to choose it, a fall in the number of pupils had led to a greater lack of funding each year and fewer “socialising opportunities” for students.

The school has room for 210 pupils but only has 128 on its register. Just 19 started last September and only six families have named it as their first choice for this September.

A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Southwark, which manages the school, said a significant fall in pupil numbers was exacerbated by a drop in baptisms in recent years. Greenwich said the school was set to lose £118,000 by the end of …

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