DEMOLISHING an Anglesey high school to replace it with a smaller school is being considered the council.
Holyhead High School could be replaced after projected surplus of s of high school places have caused rethink on education provision on the island.
Deputy head Adam Williams confirmed that the school had been in talks with the council’s head of education, Geraint Ellis.
He added: “As a school we would accept that some old school blocks will have to be demolished to make way for new ones.
“The school was built at a time when 1,200 pupils attended. Since Ysgol Bodedern was built many first language pupils have gone there.”
There has been a steady fall in numbers at the island’s four secondary schools over the last 30 years.
The number of pupils in Anglesey has fallen from 4,500 in 1974 to 4,250 in 2009.
Council reports predict that the number will fall to less than 4000, with a 1,640 surplus in places, by 2015.
A new technology block at Holyhead High School at the beginning of the summer term and Mr Williams added that the money used to maintain old school buildings could be used elsewhere.
“We’re not talking about cutting funding, but making more use of the money that we have,” he said. “We need to stop wasting money on keeping old buildings going and spend the money on the children after the new buildings open.
A Gwynedd Council spokesman added: “Creating a new school in Holyhead is a possibility. Nothing formal has been decided as yet.”