Education
The town is served by Wildern Secondary School which currently has around 1800 pupils. The Wildern site, on Wildern Lane near the town centre, houses a high-tech media facility known as the "d.@rt Centre" (d.@rt representing "Digital Art"). It also has a recently renovated sports centre which serves the local community with a large sports hall, indoor heated swimming pool, toddlers' swimming pool, gym facilities and a professional dance studio. The school also has a £250,000 Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), an all-weather surface similar to Astroturf. Shamblehurst Primary School is adjacent to the Wildern site.
King Copse Primary School is also in Hedge End, located near Cranbourne Park. Kings Copse Primary School recently underwent a complete rebuild and opened in September 2008 as a state-of-the-art school. It boasts many modern facilities and provides a stunning learning environment for its pupils.
An additional primary school, Wellstead, opened at Dowd's Farm in Grange Park in April 2008, built nearly twenty years after the first primary school for the expanding Grange Park area, Berrywood.
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