Ministry receives options for school sites

The Ministry of Education has received the final draft report into proposed sites for a new Queenstown school.

The proposed sites include one at the abandoned Five Mile development site at Frankton Flats.

Ministry communications adviser Megan Heffield said because the report was still "under active consideration", media would not be provided with a copy.

"The report is likely to be under active consideration for some time as it moves through government processes," she said.

There were many options for sites.

Earlier this month Wakatipu High School spokesman Greg Turner said the school would spend close to $3 million on new classrooms and other learning areas because it could not wait for the Ministry of Education to find a new site.

School board chairman Alistair Nicholson said he understood the ministry was looking at expanding the existing site on Gorge Rd.

"Unless you were particularly creative, it's too small. You'd have to go vertical, like a city school. We could have as many as 1500 students by 2015," Mr Nicholson said.

 

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