Wantage Town Council wants answers about plans for the future of secondary education in the area.

The town's mayor has asked for a report by Oxfordshire County Council to be made public and is seeking assurances that a decision about a 'superschool' for Wantage and Grove has not already been made.

The report, setting out costs for a number of options, was due to be published in November.

Addressing the county council's learning and culture scrutiny committee, Wantage mayor Peter Kent asked to see a copy, saying a separate report on private finance initiatives implied King Alfred's Community and Sports College's three sites in Wantage would be sold to fund what he called the monolithic option.

"This 'vision' would provide one of the largest schools in Europe, not in a city, but in rural Oxfordshire," he said. "The option is viewed locally as more of a nightmare than a vision and is deeply unpopular with the community.

"The people of Wantage and Grove do not want a monolithic, single-site school, they want choice."

The county council agreed to review King Alfred's, research the effects of secondary school size and come up with costings in February.

The governors of King Alfred's are keen to build a school for about 2,000 students, possibly on the former Grove airfield.

But Wantage town and Grove parish councils favour two 11-to-16 schools in Wantage and Grove and a sixth-form college.

Neil Fawcett, the county council's executive member for learning and culture, said the report would go to the executive early next year.