Parents are said to be "distraught" after plans to open a new secondary school near Bristol in September were pushed back by at least a year, leaving them with just a few days to find an alternative school for their children.
Lyde Green Secondary School was scheduled to welcome its first pupils this year, with the new school forming part of the housing development in the Emersons Green area in South Gloucestershire.
But on Tuesday (January 18), it was announced that the school's opening would no longer be going ahead as planned.