Overcrowding is so severe at Hillhead Primary in Glasgow, P7 pupils may have to be sent to high school a year early.
The step is currently being considered by council chiefs, as local catchment Hillhead High School has more work.
If the step is taken it has been stressed the P7s will still be doing the same sort of work they would have been doing at primary.
Both of Sarah Lowndes’ children go to Hillhead. She said: “The school my daughter (P7) and son (P4) go to has increased its roll from 525 in 2011 to 670 this year.
“It’s put an enormous strain on the school. There is a lack of gym facilities and insufficient toilets.
“We have two P7 classes sharing a room. And it’s not a classroom but the former library.
“This room is so hot, noisy and overcrowded, the class struggle to hear their teachers and to concentrate.”
In Edinburgh, more than 500 families have had their first-choice primary school refused in the last year because of a lack of space.
According to reports in April, 541 P1 placing requests were refused in 2013, up from 446 in 2012 and a record high.
It comes as council chiefs are trying to find funding for a new £15 million primary school in Edinburgh South, which has some of Scotland’s most-squeezed classrooms.
The new school will be the first entirely new campus to be built in the city for more than 30 years.
It will help alleviate pressure at South Morningside Primary, which has a roll approaching 600 in a building designed for just 14 classes.
Incredibly, the “new” school was first mooted as far back as 1998.
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