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Kepier School
Kepier School in England North East, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Kepier School is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Kepier School is a coeducational secondary school in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. As of 2025, it has 1147 pupils, and is larger than the average secondary school.
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Background
History
The school was established in 1987 as a result of a merger of three local comprehensive schools: Bernard Gilpin School, Houghton School and Sancroft School. It was originally called Houghton Kepier School. It is not connected to the nearby small fee-paying grammar school, founded in the 1570s and closed in 1922, the Royal Kepier Grammar School, but was named after it. The school was commended by the Department for Education in 2003 for using staff who were not qualified teachers as temporary "cover supervisors" in an attempt to manage teachers' workload; the initiative was criticised by the National Union of Teachers. The then headteacher, Sue Hyland, was the national secondary school…
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- Coordinates
- 54.8399, -1.4742
- Address
- Dairy Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 5BH
- Established
- 2011
Sources
- wikidata: Q19874831 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kepier School (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kepier School?
- Kepier School is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.8399°, -1.4742°.
- When was Kepier School built?
- Kepier School dates to 2011.