A cross-party Stormont committee has been highly critical of the proposal to close a school with low numbers and poor exam results.
Belfast Education and Library Board (BELB) wants to shut down Orangefield High School, where singer Van Morrison was educated.
The idea was that Orangefield in east Belfast would close in September past and pupils would transfer automatically to one of either Ashfield Boys’ or Ashfield Girls’ high schools.
The whole plan had to be shelved, however, because the already popular Ashfield schools did not have enough room for the extra pupils.
Orangefield will still close, but it is unclear exactly when this will now happen.
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