Two schools are getting closer to completing major building projects.
Work began on Crown Hills Community College and City of Leicester College, Evington, almost a year ago.
Both schools are being rebuilt on the same sites as part of the city council's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, which aims to rebuild or refurbish every city secondary.
In all, £21 million is being spent on Crown Hills, with a further £27 million on City of Leicester.
Staff and pupils are due to move in at the end of October.
At Crown Hills, exterior and interior walls are up and the roof is on.
Plastering and painting will start shortly.
The new building is next to the existing one in Gwendolen Road. The old building will be demolished in November and the land around it landscaped to create a sensory garden, allotments and an outdoor eating area for students.
The transformation of the 16-acre site also includes a theatre with retractable seating, a fitness suite, a dance studio and an eight-court sports hall with indoor cricket facilities.
The English Cricket Board has contributed £800,000 towards this.
Crown Hills School was built in the 1950s and the accommodation has become cramped and dilapidated.
Business manager Dean Barnett said: "The new building is changing on a daily basis and is going up at a rapid pace now. We're very excited about it, as are the students.
"It's going to make a huge difference to the life of the school, with large open spaces for flexible learning.
"At the moment, we are very cramped and pupils have to move around the school a lot to get to classes. The school has been designed so they don't have to move such great distances and there's plenty of space, with big, wide corridors. It's got a great feel about it."
Crown Hills pupil Divya Varjange, 13, said: "I can't wait to see the classrooms. They're going to be much bigger and brighter."
Ruzina Akther, 14, said: "I think the new drama studio is going to be brilliant and there's going to be a nicer atmosphere around the school.
"The classrooms are going to be much more interesting."
Interior and exterior walls are also up at City of Leicester, in Downing Drive.
The rebuild will see the school, which currently operates from two buildings built in the 1960s, come together under one roof.
Its existing buildings will be demolished and used for parking and sports fields.
Furniture is now being chosen and painting will start after the Easter holidays.
Jennie Sterland, the college's business leader, who is helping to oversee the huge building project, said: "Being under one roof for the first time is going to make a huge difference to us as getting 1,500 students to move around a split site can be difficult.
"The school will be divided internally into four main faculty areas and each of those will have their own social space where students can relax and study in their free time.
"I think it's going to make a huge difference to their welfare and the general atmosphere around school.
"Everyone is very excited about nearing the end of this. We feel incredibly lucky to be getting such a fantastic new building."
Both schools are being funded through a private finance initiative between the Government and the council as part of the BSF programme.
