A FLAGSHIP Southampton academy is to merge on to a single site two years early because of a drop in pupil numbers, the Daily Echo can reveal.

Shifting to a single site will mean jobs are cut at the city’s Oasis Academy Lord’s Hill.

But last night bosses would not say how many staff could be made redundant.

The cost-cutting move comes in response to lower student numbers, but academy chiefs insist it will make it easier for pupils and teachers currently working on sites a mile apart.

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