DETAILS have emerged about a £17.8m, 1,000-place school to be built in Stockton.
The North Shore Health Academy will be built on land off Norton Road, starting in February and scheduled to open in September 2013. It will accommodate 1,050 students.
The academy, for pupils from the former Blakeston and Norton senior schools, opened on the Blakeston site, but will now get its own modern facilities.
The complex will include a youth activity centre called Myplace and will be built by Carillion, which has also been asked to work on £5.5m improvement work at Thornaby Academy and £2.8m work at Freebrough Academy, in east Cleveland. Money for all three projects has been provided by central Government.
Chris Coady, principal of the academy, said: "Themultimillion-pound investment in our building will help us create a 21st Century learning environment to support the excellent teaching and learning which takes place in our academy for many future generations of young people."
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