Schools across Oxfordshire are set to be transformed in a £67m package of improvements - the biggest ever undertaken in the county.

Some schools will be demolished and replaced in a plan to modernise many of the county's crumbling primary schools and put right decades of under-investment and neglect.

Oxfordshire County Council is expecting the Government to pump in £30m, leaving County Hall to raise the rest in a five-year phased programme to create "schools fit for the 21st century".

It is viewed as a key element in the long-term strategy to improve school results, particularly in deprived areas of Oxford.

Bayards Hill Primary School in Barton and Wood Farm Primary School will both be demolished and rebuilt at a cost of almost £13m. Rose Hill Primary School will also be replaced in a later phase of the programme.

Other schools like Pegasus Primary School in Oxford and Harwell Community Primary School will get major extensions.

The opportunity will be taken to finally replace much-criticised "temporary" school buildings at many schools, including Tackley and Charlton-on-Otmoor.

There is also likely to be a new primary school in Oxford to cope with rising school numbers.

It is understood one idea is to build the school in Oxford's West End, where hundreds of new homes are being built as part of a multi-million regeneration.

Michael Waine, county cabinet member for schools, said: "These improvements to school buildings will support our overarching strategy to raise standards, as well as transform school buildings.

"We are also planning for expected population increases in Oxfordshire over the coming years.

"There is a growth in primary aged children in Oxford, with more people moving in with young children. I would say the school will be built in the centre or south east of the city.

"We are anticipating receiving a large amount of funding from the Government to create the primary schools of the future, which will give children a modern, exciting environment in which they can learn."

Schools earmarked for funding for expansion or substantial building improvements in Oxford are: East Oxford Primary School; Rose Hill Primary School; Pegasus Primary School; and SS Mary and SS John Church of England Primary School, which is moving to one site.

Other schools included on the list for improvements are: Eynsham Community Primary School; Harwell Community Primary School; Barley Hill Primary School, Thame; Charlton-on-Otmoor Church of England Primary School; Great Milton Church of England Primary School; Tackley Church of England Primary School; Launton Church of England School; Peppard Church of England Primary School, near Henley; The Grange Community Primary School, Banbury; Hornton Primary School, near Banbury; St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and Mill Lane Community Primary School, both Chinnor.