School with two pupils to close its doors

A REMOTE rural school that was costing a local authority £100,000 a year to educate its two pupils, is to finally close its doors two years after Scottish Government ministers intervened to keep it open.

The threat of closure has been hanging over Cabrach Primary in Moray for almost four years because of a falling school roll.

In 2007 Moray councillors decided the school should be mothballed and the remaining pupils – a brother and sister – transferred to Mortlach Primary, six miles away.

But the local community rallied behind a campaign to save the school, the only public building in the plateau between Dufftown and Rhynie.

But yesterday Moray councillors moved to close the school permanently at the end of the current term after being told that Helena Sierakowska, whose children are the only pupils at the school, is to move to Huntly, 12 miles away.