Two Swadlincote schools have been awarded six figure sums to fund expansion programmes in Midway and Newhall.

Millions of pounds from housing developers is being used across Derbyshire.

A total of more than £4.7 million from developers is being used to pay for a total of nine school expansions across Derbyshire.

These include William Allitt School, in Newhall, which is getting £485,000 towards a three-classroom extension.

And Eureka Primary School in Midway, is being awarded £303,000 towards a three-classroom extension.

Each time a housing developer has plans approved for medium and large homes schemes, they are asked to provide money to offset the impact their project will have on the area.

This includes money for creating space for more students at primary and secondary schools in the vicinity of each site.

Some areas of the county, particularly south of Derby, are the source of many housing developments which see money pooled together for larger school expansion projects – to cope with the huge influx in demand.

To show this, a total of £12 million from housing developers has been gathered for expansions at John Port School.

Planned expansions through the use of money from housing developers will see John Port Academy – already Derbyshire's largest secondary school – expand to a capacity of 2,500 students through a number of extensions.

The first expansion to be directly funded by housing developers will be £1.7 million for a two-storey sixth form extension with additional seminar rooms, study areas and social space – with money pooled from seven housing schemes.

John Port has been the subject of so many housing developer contributions due to its dominance of secondary education in the south of Derby area.

Derbyshire County Council, which has gathered the funds from housing developers, said it must grant the funds to John Port so as not to "fail in its statutory duty to supply sufficient school places" with "no other secondary and post 16 places available in the area".

Further funds totalling £3 million from housing developers has been directed to another eight Derbyshire schools, sourced from 18 approved homes schemes.

These schools and expansions are as follows:

• William Allitt School in Newhall is getting £485,000 towards a three-classroom extension

• Eureka Primary School in Midway, Swadlincote, is getting £303,000 towards a three-classroom extension

• Etwall Primary School is getting £46,000 towards a two-classroom extension

• Hallam Fields Junior School in Ilkeston is getting £528,000 towards a two-classroom extension

• Clowne Infant School will be getting £9,000 towards improving facilities

• Somercotes Infant School will be getting £12,000 towards improving facilities

• Tibshelf Community School will be getting £834,000 towards further classrooms

• Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Ashbourne will be getting £289,000 towards plans for six new classrooms

Meanwhile, the county council is also dispersing nearly £15 million in Government grants to dozens of schools across Derbyshire for both extensions and repairs.