The design, beyond the formal teaching spaces, incorporates a number of learning areas for students to study independent of teachers including computing.

On the exterior Devereux Architects, the architectural practice behind the Exemplar school, has strategically installed solar panels to provide tempered hot water.

[8] In December 2024, the school announced it would close by August 2026 due to low pupil numbers, despite opposition from parents.

This was a major political argument about elitism in University of Oxford admissions procedures, centring on Magdalen College's decision to reject Monkseaton student Laura Spence's application to study medicine.

[14] The partners in the Trust are the school itself, Microsoft,[15] Tribal Education, North Tyneside Council and the Chair, Professor David Reynolds.

Monkseaton has developed spaced learning, based on the neuroscientific discoveries of Douglas Fields at the National Institutes of Health in the USA.