Nearby was Weston Park Boys' School, later Grove Park Business and Enterprise College and then in September 2008 closed along with Woolston School Language College to make way for Oasis Academy Mayfield.

A draft plan for the new build was released on 24 October 2009, with the hope work would begin in early 2012.

On 5 July 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that the Building Schools for the Future programme was to be scrapped.

BSF projects which had not achieved the status of 'financial close', including Chamberlayne, would not proceed.

[3] This means the school gets extra money to spend on Dance, Drama and Music.