£8.2m Oxbridge Lane Primary School transformation complete

£8.2m transformation brings new classrooms, kitchen and solar panels to Stockton primary school

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Two years of building work at Oxbridge Lane Primary School have finished, modernising the 1890 school while retaining its historic character.

By The Tees Editorial Desk · 9 September 2026

A collage showing Oxbridge Lane Primary School’s refurbished exterior, dining hall, early years space and classroom Image: Stockton-on-Tees Borough CouncilImage source

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A Victorian primary school in Stockton has completed a major £8.2 million redevelopment, bringing new teaching spaces, a kitchen, improved facilities and solar panels into a building first opened in 1890.

Oxbridge Lane Primary School, part of the Prince Regent School Trust, has been under construction for two years. The finished scheme has been designed to modernise the school without erasing the original architecture that gives the site much of its character.

Modern facilities inside a historic school

The project includes a glazed reception area, new kitchen facilities, upgraded classrooms and an improved early years offer. The school’s original Victorian building did not have its own kitchen, while younger pupils had previously been taught in a separate prefabricated building dating from the 1940s.

Solar panels have also been installed as part of the redevelopment. The work therefore combines some very practical changes to the school day, including meals being prepared on site and early years pupils moving into improved accommodation, with longer-term upgrades to the building itself.

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council initially £7.5 million to the scheme through its wider programme of investment in schools and nurseries. A further £700,000 was later approved by Cabinet, taking the total project budget to £8.2 million.

Part of a wider school investment programme

The Oxbridge Lane project sits within a £57.7 million council programme to improve school and nursery buildings across the borough. That larger figure matters because school estates can easily become an invisible problem: ageing roofs, layouts and facilities do not always make headlines, but they shape pupils’ everyday experience for years.

Head teacher Lauren Amerigo said the refurbishment would improve pupils’ educational experience while allowing the school to remain on Oxbridge Lane and its identity. She highlighted the new kitchen and early years as particularly changes for children and families.

The completed work is a useful example of at a human scale. It is not a new landmark on the skyline, but a place hundreds of children will use repeatedly, in a building that has already served generations of Stockton families.

With construction now complete, the measure of the project will be what happens inside it: better day-to-day facilities, a more suitable environment for younger children and a historic school building equipped to keep doing its job well into the future.