Ledyard — The Town Council will formally ask the Municipal Building Committee to weigh two different options for consolidating the town’s three elementary schools as well as estimate the cost for a new renovation plan of Ledyard Middle School.

The decision came after members of the Board of Education presented its facilities plan to the Town Council Tuesday night — a plan the board voted through last month that calls for, among other things, bringing the sixth grade to Ledyard Middle School, renovating the school “as new,” and closing one of the town’s three elementary schools.

Town officials agreed that the middle school and elementary school phases of the plan should be packaged together in a plan that they hope to put before voters by May.

The Town Council will make its request of the Municipal Building Committee at its meeting next Wednesday, asking the committee to come up with cost estimates for renovating and adding on a wing to accommodate the influx of students at both Gallup Hill and Ledyard Center schools.

One of these schools will be closed.

The Town Council scrapped its endorsement of a $45 million renovation of the middle school in April — a project that included the closure of Ledyard Center School — after questions about the price were raised. It was removed from the May referendum ballot.

The Municipal Building Committee’s next meeting will be held in August.