Lionel S2 school in Ness, Lewis, is set to shut this June under plans by the Comhairle.
At next week’s education committee, councillors will debate shutting the secondary school.
The final vote will be made at the full council on 11 February.
Council bosses recommend axing the S1/S2 provision at Lionel School be discontinued from 26 June.
Affected pupils would be transferred to the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.
Lionel secondary is the last rural S2 school left in the Western Isles after rounds of savage school closures in recent years.
It was reprieved after a period of roundabout politics.
The council voted to shut the school but reversed that decision in 2012.
School supporters maintain the council’s consultation was biased and unfair.
Education chairperson Catriona Stewart is criticised and accused of not being impartial and “openly in favour” of closure.
They say the Comhairle cannot cite financial reasons.
The council says the school has a falling roll making it difficult to give pupils an “education experience within the broad general education that can match that provided at The Nicolson Institute.”
Councillors to vote on closing rural secondary school
28 January 2015