There are fears over the future of smaller and rural schools after the council launched a consultation on the learning estate and warned things “will have to change”.
Councillors agreed in 2018 to a “transformation programme” to address issues surrounding a “significant funding gap”, sub-standard schools and an ageing and declining population.
Andrew O’ Halloran, regional association secretary for the EIS union, said: “While the EIS is aware of some of the challenges facing Dumfries and Galloway Council in terms of the deplorable state of much of the school estate and the extreme rurality of the local authority, we would oppose any school closures on purely financial grounds.
