Marden High School is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

secondary school located in

Cullercoats Cullercoats is a coastal settlement in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East England. Historically in Northumberland, it has now been absorbed into the wider Tyneside conurbation, sitting between Tynemouth to the ...

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newc ...

, England. The Marden City Learning Centre, opened 15 July 2003, is situated on the grounds in front of the school. In 2015 the school began building a new school building through the Priority Schools Building Programme. This was completed in 2016. The older building was demolished and replaced with a car park and field. This work was fully completed in 2017.

Notable former pupils

* David Bradley - award-winning science journalist and author of the book ''Deceived Wisdom'' * Chris Day - hepatologist, and Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University from 2017. * Andrew Dunn - stage, film and television actor *

Andy Ogle Andrew Richard Ogle (born 16 February 1989) is a retired English mixed martial artist, who formerly competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2009, Ogle has made a name ...

- professional

Mixed Martial Artist Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorpo ...

, Featherweight for the

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* Andy Taylor - guitarist with Duran Duran * Carol Malia - BBC Look North flagship presenter *

Chloe Ferry Chloe Ferry (born Chloe West Etherington; 31 August 1995) is an English television personality from Newcastle, known for being a cast member in the MTV reality series ''Geordie Shore''. She also took part in the nineteenth series of ''Celebrit ...

- Geordie Shore *

Marion Fawkes Marion Fawkes (born 3 December 1948) is a British former racewalker. She was the first official female world champion in racewalking through her victory at the 1979 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. She broke four world records in her career. From N ...

- Former world, European and EU race walking champion. Former world record holder for 3k,5k, & 10k race walks. *

Ross Welford Ross Welford is an English children's science-fiction/fantasy author. Biography Welford was born in Cullercoats, a small seaside town in the north-east of England. He attended Marden High School and studied English at Leeds University before b ...

- Children's author.

References

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Marden High School
{{authority control Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside Foundation schools in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside