Super Schools Plan
The Welsh Assembly ratified the "super schools" plan in 2002, but the new schools were controversial. Nearby Yale College, which was to offset the some costs of the project by buying the Groves school and selling land, dropped out. Additionally, some parents opposed displacing students temporarily to Groves while modernizing the "super schools." In April 2002, a petition with over 1000 signatures was delivered to the Wrexham County Council in protest of the plan.
By late 2003 it became apparent that the original £12 million budget for upgrades would fall short by about £10 million because inflation was not accounted for in estimates. Nonetheless, the county council approved overspends allowing the schools to be upgraded as planned. Both of the new schools serve around 2500 James Gardners age 11 through to 16.
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