WORCESTERSHIRE County Council's cabinet committee has given the thumbs up to a new school being built to serve Church Hill North on the Ravens Bank First School site.
Ravens Bank and Marlfield Farm First School governors approached the county council to look at the possibility of amalgamating the schools because of drastically falling pupil numbers.
After a public consultation, 74 per cent of respondents supported creating a new school on a single site.
After assessment of both sites, officers recommended to councillors that Raven Bank would be the most suitable.
A county council spokesman said: "This will now go through the usual motions and we are looking towards creating a new school on the site by September 1, 2006."
Both schools were earmarked for closure in 1998's Redditch Review but their communities argued so strongly against it that they were omitted from the final closures.
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