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Harton Academy, formerly Harton Technology College or Harton Comprehensive School, is a mixed secondary and sixth form academy located in South Shields, South Tyneside, England. In March 2022, Ofsted rated Harton Academy’s overall effectiveness as ‘requires improvement’. This was over ‘issues in record-keeping’.
There is no county-wide local education authority in Tyne and Wear, instead education services are provided by the five smaller metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland: List of schools in Gateshead; List of schools in Newcastle Upon Tyne; List of schools in North Tyneside
The school performs well above the local authority average has held the best GCSE and AS/A level scores in South Tyneside. As of 2015, the school is listed as the second highest in Tyne and Wear [4] At GCSE in 2010, the school came first in the local authority area, above the England average. The school repeated the success in 2014. [5]
It is a well-regarded and over-subscribed school, performing well both regionally and nationally. In its most recent OFSTED inspection (2023) it was credited with having cultivated a "climate of high ambition" and was rated as "good" in all major areas assessed. [1] The school converted to academy status on 1 February 2012.
A community school administered by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council, [2] it has a specialism in sports. The school relocated to a new £17.5 million building in 2006. The school relocated to a new £17.5 million building in 2006.
The school opened as St. Joseph's Grammar Technical School in 1959, being officially opened on 9 June 1960 by James Cunningham, the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.It was a grammar school with a technical focus (similar to a technical school) for catholic children in the north of County Durham, and the County Borough of South Shields.
For local government purposes Tyne and Wear comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. The borough councils collaborate through the North East Combined Authority , which also includes Durham County Council and Northumberland County Council .