Councillors will be asked to formally back an £11million project to replace an overcrowded north-east primary school next week.
Markethill Primary in Turriff is already over capacity, and earlier this year councillors capped the school roll to stop it spiralling out of control.
On Tuesday, members of the Formartine area committee will be asked to back plans for a larger, new school, which will have space for 505 pupils – and room to expand again in future if necessary.
Under the plans, the new school would open in August 2017.
Now the education service has issued a report to councillors, reporting back on the positive feedback received during a lengthy consultation.
In a report to councillors from Education Scotland, an inspector states: “Aberdeenshire Council’s proposal to replace Markethill Primary School has clear educational benefits for current and future pupils of Markethill Primary School and the local community.
“It has very strong support from stakeholders and will provide opportunities to enhance family learning and parental involvement in children’s education.”
The inspector added parents are “optimistic” about the prospect of playing a larger role in their children’s education in new school, which will offer substantially more activity and community spaces.
The local authority’s education chief Maria Walker said: “Officers within education and children’s services have carefully considered all of the responses to the consultation and have made a recommendation in their report.
“The recommendation is that the council should adopt the proposal.”
Mrs Walker did however added that some “flexibility” would be needed for the official opening date of the new building, which the education service could not guarantee would be complete by the beginning of the 2017-18 academic year.
Members of the Formartine area committee will discuss the report when they meet in Ellon on Tuesday morning.