St Wilfrid's RC College is a mixed

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and

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located in

South Shields South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was once known in Roman Britain, Roman times as ''Arbeia'' and as ''Caer Urfa'' by the Early Middle Ag ...

South Tyneside South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear: Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the north and Newcastl ...

, England. St Wilfrid's RC College was previously a

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and

Mathematics and Computing College Mathematics and Computing Colleges were introduced in England in 2002 and Northern Ireland in 2006 as part of the Government's Specialist Schools programme which was designed to raise standards in secondary education. Specialist schools focus ...

administered by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council. In January 2016 the school was converted to academy status, however St Wilfrid's continues to coordinate with South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council for admissions. The school continues to be under the guidance of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, centred on St Mary's Cathedral, in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. The diocese is one of the six suffragan sees in the ecclesiastical provi ...

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* Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Academies in the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside Education in South Shields {{TyneAndWear-school-stub