Overcrowded Northern Sydney primary schools bursting at the seams

By Alexandra Smith
Updated April 11 2015 - 10:08am, first published March 17 2015 - 8:00pm
Parents of children attending Willoughby Public School are concerned that the school is on land meant for 450 students but has more than 1000 with more expected. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Parents of children attending Willoughby Public School are concerned that the school is on land meant for 450 students but has more than 1000 with more expected. Photo: Wolter Peeters

Primary schools in Sydney's north are so overcrowded that the state government has considered buying land and redeveloping it into residential blocks with classrooms underneath to cope with ballooning enrolments.

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