Extended schools offer integrated services, including health, social services and childcare, and are a key part of the ongoing reform of children's services. There have been 68 pilots in operation since September.
More will follow and each local authority will have at least one full-service extended school by 2006. But concerns have been raised that schools and trusts are struggling to find a "common language".
Julian Piper, national programme director of ContinYou, which is charged with supporting the 68 pilot schools, said there was a widespread lack of understanding.
"In some areas it has been relatively straightforward, with schools managing to make contact," he said.
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