A Gateshead high school's extension plans are set to be given the go-ahead next week.
Ateres Girls' High School, in Felling, has applied for planning permission to build a two-storey annexe creating eight new classrooms and support spaces.
Planning documents lodged with Gateshead Council state that the school, on Willow Grove, expects up to 40 more students over the next five years.
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As things stand 246 students, aged between 11 and 16, attend the school, which has 75 members of staff.
Students and staff are bused in by a shuttle service that runs between Bensham and Felling.
If the plans are given the go-ahead the annexe will be built on a slope to the north of the building.
The design and access statement said: “The annexe is detached from the existing school and offers level access throughout. A single entrance overlooked from staff offices leads to 8 no. classrooms, associated lockers/cloaks, WCs, storage arranged on two levels with an ancillary space within the roof void."
The council's planning department recommended approval for the scheme with its report pointing out that the boroughs local plan supports "the use of appropriate sites or premises in suitable and accessible locations for Jewish community needs, including the use of premises of teaching, subject to consideration of their impact on residential amenity and other local community needs."
The planning committee will vote on the proposals on Wednesday.
In its profile on the Times Educational Supplement website, the school described itself as a “high-achieving, girls-only, non-selective, Jewish secondary school without sixth form situated in the Felling area of Gateshead”.
