Historic churches · North East England
St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College
St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College in England North East, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
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St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College 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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St Bede's Catholic School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form located in Peterlee, County Durham, England.
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Background
History
The school was officially opened in 1970 by Bishop Hugh Lindsay, but actually opened for staff and pupils in September 1969. Then only the first-year students, born in 1957-58, were a truly non-selective 'comprehensive' intake. These were the first Catholic pupils in the area not to sit the 11-plus examination. Second-year and upwards pupils were all pupils who had 'failed' the 11-plus and were thus taken from the various Catholic secondary modern schools in the area that had been closed and replaced by the new institution. Meanwhile, those older students who had passed their 11-plus in 1968 and earlier years continued to be educated at the St Francis RC Grammar School(boys) and at the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.7580, -1.3460
- Established
- 1970
- Official site
- www.st-bedes.durham.sch.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7587247 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Bede's Catholic School, Peterlee (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College?
- St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.7580°, -1.3460°.
- When was St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College built?
- St Bede's Catholic Comprehensive School and Byron College dates to 1970.