Parents are considering taking legal action against Hackney Council over its plans to close their children's school.
The council announced that Colvestone Primary School in Dalston was one of four schools that will close at the start of the next school year due to the “significant decline in the number of school-aged children”.
The school will merge with the nearby Princess May Primary School and all pupils at Colvestone Primary School will have a place there if they want it.
But parents launched a campaign to protect the school shortly after Hackney Council first told parents about plans to shut its doors.
Helen Davis, a member of the Save Colvestone campaign, said the council had "ignored us at every turn" and described the move as a "horrific decimation of primary school provision in Hackney".
The campaign is now fundraising for a second legal challenge on the issue, having already taken legal action in September.
The group is also preparing a new pre-action protocol letter for judicial review, which could see the closures challenged in the High Court.
Mrs Davis told the Standard on Wednesday: "We will be trying to fundraise for a further legal challenge. We issued one in September and we are now in conversation with our lawyers around issuing a pre-action letter and then pursuing a judicial review."
She explained: "This school is at the heart of the community. Ridley Road will be hugely impacted by the loss of children walking to and from school every day.
"We are supposed to be at the heart of this 21st-century street. This amazing new offer that Hackney Council had put forward.
"It really should not be underestimated what a huge hole this will leave in the Dalston community. I think it is horrific what they are doing."
The parent, who has two nine-year-old daughters at Colvestone Primary School, said there has been a "shadow of what’s next" looming over the school’s pupils.
Mrs Davis added: "There are potentially 400 families having to find new school uniforms, having to disrupt their children’s learning, their friendship groups, their stability.
"The council has just spent a quarter of a million pounds redeveloping our roof, painting our railings, redeveloping our hall, putting in new doors, decorating our whole building and in six months that will just set to mothball."
Mrs Davis also claimed the school closures were partly down to "Hackney’s shocking approach to delivering affordable family housing in the borough".
Her comments echo those made by the headmaster at nearby Randal Cremer Primary School, which is also set for closure.
Jo Riley previously told the Standard that parents unable to afford living in London has been a "huge factor" in the declining school numbers, and her school has been left "a ghost town".
The "unprecedented" decision to shut the schools has also created a stir at Hackney Council, with at least five councillors calling the decision to shut the primary school in for review.
The council said plans to close Colvestone Primary School have been suspended until a special meeting takes place to decide if the decision should still go ahead.
A Hackney Council spokesperson said: "The council received a request for a call-in of part of the key decision taken by Cabinet on December 11 relating to the Schools Sufficiency and Estate Strategy relating to Colvestone Primary School and Baden Powell Primary School.
"A special Scrutiny Panel is being arranged to hear the call-in and the agenda will be published on the Council's website at least five working days before the meeting.
"In accordance with the Council’s Constitution, the part of the decision referred to in the call-in is suspended pending the outcome of the call-in."
De Beauvoir Primary School and Baden Powell Primary School will also close in September 2024. Baden Powell school will merge with Nightingale Primary School.
