Hoerskool Ermelo has conditionally agreed to change it language policy to accommodate English-speaking pupils, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday.

The chairman of the school's governing body, Barend Greyling, said in an affidavit handed to the Constitutional Court, that English-speaking pupils would be allowed to attend the school.

But this would be on condition that English pupils may only use facilities currently not being utilised by Afrikaans-speaking pupils.

"Afrikaans will remain the primary medium of tuition at the Hoerskool Ermelo," stated Greyling.

There are currently about 15 unused classrooms at the school, reported Beeld.

The Constitutional Court ruled in October that the Mpumalanga education department acted unlawfully when it forced the Afrikaans Hoerskool Ermelo to become a parallel medium school.

However, the Constitutional Court ordered the school to review its language policy within the context of the basic human rights enshrined in the Constitution.