The small, efficient school would be closed by the S of S for Education because he went to the larger, more inefficient school in the next county.
But they forgot to build enough class-rooms in advance, so lots of the lessons will take place in unsuitable buildings, and lots of the staff will have to live in the Travelodge or so far away that by the time they get home at night it will be time to get up and go to work again.