Gosforth East Middle School is a

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Gosforth Gosforth is an area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, situated north of the Newcastle City Centre, City Centre. It constituted a separate Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district of Northumberland from 1895 until 1974 before of ...

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. Students usually transfer to

Gosforth Academy Gosforth Academy (formerly Gosforth High School) is an English secondary school in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. As well as having a sixth form department it is a specialist Language College. Many of its mainstream students come from three la ...

. The school is in the Parklands electoral ward.

History

The school started in 1960 as Gosforth East Secondary School and became Gosforth East Middle School when

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system in 1973. In 2003, Gosforth East had a new building erected. This building costing £4 million was officially opened on 12 September 2003 by David Bell, who then was Chief Inspector of Schools. Gosforth East was inspected by Ofsted in 2009; the report noted, "this is a good and improving school." In 2014 the Gosforth Schools Trust was formed with Archibald First, Archbishop Runcie CE First, Broadway East First, Brunton First, Dinnington First, Gosforth Central Middle, Gosforth East Middle, Gosforth Park First, Grange First, Regent Farm First and South Gosforth First School.

Results

The KS2 SATs results score by year are listed below:

Feeder schools

Broadway East First School

Dinnington First School

Gosforth Park First School

Notable alumni

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References

External links

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