[1] A community school administered by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council,[2] it has a specialism in sports.

A £100,000 humanities building was destroyed on the afternoon of Saturday 25 January 1997, requiring eight fire crews.

[3] Boldon School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils.

The school also operates a vocational sixth form which offers NVQs and further BTECs.

[4] This Tyne and Wear school or sixth form college related article is a stub.