Education bosses look set to go through with plans to close a school despite parents telling the council it was the wrong decision.

Leicestershire County Council's cabinet is due to make a decision tomorrow to formally move to close Holmfield Primary School, in Leicester Forest East.

It comes despite 80% of people responding to a consultation saying the school should stay open. People connected with nearby primary schools were concerned there would not be room for Holmfield children, if the closure went ahead.

But Councillor Ivan Ould, the county council cabinet's education spokesman, said the school's pupils deserved a better education – which Holmfield was failing to deliver.

He said: "Ofsted has serious, ongoing concerns about Holmfield.

"It placed the school into special measures last June and, by December, judged it was making inadequate progress.

"I met parents and told them that the return visit of Ofsted was a critically important factor in determining the outcome for the school.

"It was very disappointing that the judgement was inadequate, particularly since we have maintained our support for the school.

"I appreciate the majority of people who responded want to keep the school open – but Ofsted's concerns mean we have a legal duty to consider closing Holmfield and giving its pupils a better education at other schools nearby."

Officials first decided to consult on closure in October following an Ofsted report that put the school in special measures – a year after it had been first warned that standards were "inadequate".

Since the consultation began, more than 40 children have been removed from the school. If closure is approved, County Hall says there would be room in nearby schools.

However, about 40 of Holmfield's pupils come from Leicester and the county council said there would be fewer places available for children from the city.

One group of parents said they would be at the meeting at County Hall tomorrow. Many said they were concerned that their children would now have to go to schools which they considered not to be as good as Holmfield, or were further away.

Greg Hancock, of Braunstone, whose two sons are at the school, said: "We are disgusted more than anything else. They are saying we can find other schools.

"I have contacted three schools and they are all saying they are full and not taking any more pupils.''

Tracey Harris, of Braunstone, who has a daughter at the school, said: "They were always going to do this. They haven't listened to anyone but just carried on regardless.

"It is very disappointing, but we will be at the meeting still fighting for the school."

Tracey Keenan, of New Parks, had three children at the school but decided to move them to other schools because of its uncertain future.

She said: "It was a very big decision, but we felt we had to. But I am still disgusted. I feel so much for the other children that are left behind. It's devastating."

If the county cabinet agrees to publish a statutory notice, there will be a further six weeks' consultation before the cabinet takes a final decision in April.