Pupils at Manchester King David High School will have to attend classes on the royal wedding bank holiday.
Instead of having the day off, pupils will be celebrating April 29 in school uniform behind their desks while most other schoolchildren in the country are enjoying an extra day off.
Chairman of governors Joshua Rowe said the school would be opening "out of desperation" because the combination of Jewish holidays and Easter weekend just days before the wedding are causing havoc to GCSE and A-Level studies. It is compounded by problems with the legal number of teaching days the school must remain open.
Mr Rowe said: "The school is due to be shut for two weeks for Pesach and the Easter weekend. We re-open a day before the wedding. If we closed the school for the wedding we couldn't open for one day. Students would then be off for almost three weeks.
