Sacred Heart Catholic High School (Newcastle upon Tyne)

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Sacred Heart Catholic High School
Established	1905
Type	Comprehensive, Sixth form, Technical College
Headteacher	Patricia Wager
Location	Fenham Hall Drive Newcastle Upon Tyne England
Students	c.1300
Gender	Girls
Ages	11 to 18
Website	http://www.sacredheart-high.org

Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Newcastle upon Tyne, England was established in 1905 as a small fee paying, all-female private secondary school in Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1977 the grammar and secondary school on the Fenham site were amalgamated and became a comprehensive school.

Today the school educates around 1300 girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen on the much improved and beautiful site which recently benefitted from a near £10 million makeover.

The uniform is known throughout Newcastle with the navy blue blazer and jumper, and a Douglas Tartan kilt (Dark blue, light blue, green and white). The school provides a very high standard of education and the students results in GCSEs and A-levels are some of the best in the city^{[citation needed]}.

In 2007 the school signed up to the Building Schools for the Future initiative which resulted in, amongst other benefits, the outsourcing of all IT services to a division of Newcastle City Council named "City Service".