Historic churches · North East England
St Joseph's Catholic Academy
St Joseph's Catholic Academy in England North East, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
About
St Joseph's Catholic Academy 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 Joseph's Catholic Academy (formerly St Joseph's RC Comprehensive School) is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status, located in Hebburn, South Tyneside, England. The school currently caters for students aged 11 to 18 and also a number of vocational courses. It is one of a number of secondary schools in the local authority area that has a sixth form. The school is on the B1306, near the A185 junction, in the south of Hebburn, one mile north of the terminus of the A194(M). It is on the district boundary with Gateshead. Further down Mill Lane until 1992 was the Monkton Coke Works.
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Background
History
The school opened as St. Joseph's Grammar Technical School in 1959, being officially opened on 9 June 1960 by James Cunningham, the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. It was a grammar school with a technical focus (similar to a technical school) for catholic children in the north of County Durham, and the County Borough of South Shields. Further grammar technical schools were to be opened in Gateshead, Lanchester, Stockton and Whitley Bay. St Joseph's became a comprehensive in 1974 when it merged with the neighbouring St James' RC Secondary Modern School, which was on the same site. The school gained specialist Technology College status in 1996. The school converted to academy status in July…
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- Coordinates
- 54.9599, -1.5226
- Address
- Mill Lane
- Established
- 1959
- Official site
- www.stjosephs.uk.net
Sources
- wikidata: Q7589209 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Joseph's Catholic Academy (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Joseph's Catholic Academy?
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9599°, -1.5226°.
- When was St Joseph's Catholic Academy built?
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy dates to 1959.