Parents and community members in Goresbridge, Co Kilkenny, are to meet tonight to decide on a plan of action over the planned closure of the local secondary school.
The 129-pupil St Brigid's School is to be phased out by the Department of Education and Science over the next two years.
The major capital investment which the school would require to remain open cannot be justified, the Minister, Mr Dempsey, said in a letter to the school's board of management.