St Joseph's Catholic Academy

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.

Further grammar technical schools were to be opened in Gateshead, Lanchester, Stockton and Whitley Bay.

The Bede Block (PE department) of the school was opened by former England footballer Peter Beardsley MBE.

The school performs well above the local authority average and currently holds the best GCSE and AS/A level scores in South Tyneside, with 84% of its students reaching grades A*-C at GCSE and an average AS/A level point score of 645.9.

[1] The academic achievement, vocational and pastoral targets of the school was recognised by the DfES in the award of "Leading Edge" status in September 2003.