In the County Council Division of West End and Hedge End Grange Park, there are three schools, St James Church of England Primary School, Berrywood Primary School and Wellstead Primary School, but the Division is also in the catchment area of Wildern Secondary School. It is expected that in the next 20 years, around 17,000 new homes will be built in Eastleigh, several thousand of which will likely be coming to West End. It has already been announced that a new Primary and Secondary school will be built near Burnetts Lane, that by 2025 could comprise a 3 form entry and 9 form entry respectively, totalling some 2,400 pupils.
Wildern School has been full since 2015 and since it is an Academy, it was the Management Trust and not the Local Education Authority that needed to make the decision as to whether it would provide a temporary extension until the new school is built. In primary schools, it is a relatively simple matter of adding a temporary classroom, but at secondary level with the wider curriculum taught, it is complicated to provide a temporary extension. Nevertheless, this has now been authorized.
Wellstead School is undergoing pressures with respect to pupil entrants as well and after undergoing a year with temporary classrooms has in 2016 expanded with purpose built new facilities by 2 Form Entries.
St James Primary School is also undergoing the same pressures and will expand by 1 Form Entry by having seven new classrooms built by September 2017.