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St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy (formerly St Anthony's Girls' Catholic School) is a
secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
and
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located in
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,
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, Newcastl ...
, England. It was established as a
grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
by the
Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute had about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. They a ...
in 1902 and relocated to the current site on Thornhill Terrace in 1939. The school became comprehensive in 1972 and became a
voluntary aided school A voluntary aided school (VA school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a religious organisation), contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school. In mo ...
in 1976. The school achieved specialisms in technology in 1999 and languages in 2009, and converted to academy status in 2012. St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy offers
GCSEs The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a particular subject, taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. Private sc ...
and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while girls in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of
A-level The A-Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational aut ...
s and further BTECs. The current head of school is Mrs Catherine Hammill, and the current executive head teacher is Mrs Francesca Craik.


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St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy official website
Secondary schools in the City of Sunderland Sisters of Mercy schools Educational institutions established in 1902 1902 establishments in England Catholic secondary schools in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Girls' schools in Tyne and Wear Academies in the City of Sunderland Sunderland {{RC-stub