Photo: Supplied / Westbridge Residential School

The Education Ministry has proposed shutting down a struggling boarding school for children with extreme behaviour problems due to fears for their safety and education.

This week it opened consultation on closing Westbridge Residential School, one of just three residential schools for students with disabilities.

Accompanying documents showed the Auckland school had been under close scrutiny for at least two years and had a roll of just six students in the middle of last year.

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