There are fears that Wanganui will be subject to a series of school closures and mergers because of a large surplus of school places.
Labour's education spokesman Chris Hipkins said figures from the Ministry of Education said the Whanganui-Rangitikei network had more than 1400 surplus places in its secondary schools.
Last week in Parliament, he asked Education Minister Hekia Parata if she would rule out making further changes to the Whanganui-Rangitikei school network because of the surplus. She said she would "continue to monitor it".
Mr Hipkins said that, based on the experience of Christchurch and Dunedin schools, Wanganui may face mergers and closures.
"It may not happen straight away. Possibly in a year or two, but the minister has used surplus places as a reason to start mergers and Wanganui has a lot of surplus places.