Our students enjoy fantastic facilities, supporting our high aspirations for them. The academy has a strong academic tradition and students achieve very well in their GCSEs, where our results are consistently amongst the highest performing North East state schools. Our A level results demonstrate that we can also produce fantastic results with our Sixth Form students, with an increasing number of students gaining places at Oxford and Cambridge.

In December 2017, we received the World Class Schools Quality Mark, one of only 60 schools in England to receive this accreditation. We were proud to receive this award, as it is unique because it is the students who are assessed, not the staff. This is based on the idea that if the school is truly World Class, then its students should be able to demonstrate this in whatever context they find themselves. Students are assessed against a skills and competency framework unique to World Class, because it measures young people’s readiness for the world of work and life in 21st century society.