The leaders of Hampshire County Council voted in January to close Oak Farm Community School in August 2011.

The closure of the Farnborough secondary school will mean the loss of around 60 jobs, force around 150 pupils to move to new schools, and end 38 years of history for the area's only community secondary school.

Council education planners, who proposed the closure, said Oak Farm had to shut because there were not enough children in Farnborough to justify the four secondary schools there - Wavell, Ferhill, Cove and Oak Farm - with significant numbers of empty school desks.

Oak Farm, which with just 230 pupils on its roll was less than a third full, making it the smallest secondary school in Hampshire, will therefore get the chop.

The county council says the closure will pave the way for up to £100m of government funding to transform the remaining secondary schools in Aldershot and Farnborough.

However, school governors, staff and parents are angry at the way the closure has been handled.

Users of the school's popular community and adult education facilities - some 92,000 people a year - will have to wait until July to learn their fate, although council leaders offered assurances that such facilities would continue after 2011.

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