The Local Transformational Partnership consortium has been selected as the preferred bidder to redevelop the Grange School in Runcorn using a PFI model and conventional funding for the Wade Deacon High School in Widnes.
Both projects were approved in August after the BSF review by education secretary Michael Gove. Eight other schools projects proposed in Halton were cancelled at the time.
Work will commence on April 2011 and completion of construction is expected in May 2013.