Monkseaton High School
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Monkseaton Community High School is a mixed, comprehensive school situated in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England for 13-18 year olds. There are 925 students on roll, 219 of whom are in the sixth form. The school is a specialist Language College and has initiated or led a number of local and national initiatives aimed at raising standards.
[edit] The Laura Spence Affair
In 2000, Monkseaton High School became a focus for the national media during the Laura Spence Affair. This was a major political argument about alleged elitism in Oxford University admissions procedures, centring around their decision to reject Monkseaton student Laura Spence's application to study medicine. Laura was subsequently offered a £65,000 scholarship to study at Harvard University in the US.
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[edit] All England Cup
Monkseaton high school football academy, last year won the all england cup involving 2836 6th form teams across England, Monkseaton won the cup along side the leauge cup DIV1, leauge cup DIV2, county cup, north England cup and churchhill cup, playing 33 games, winning 32 and drawing 1 on the first game of the season. Monkseaton beat London Academy 2-1 at the meadow lane.
