Firfield Community School was an 11 to 18 mixed, community secondary school in the Blakelaw ward of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the English county of Tyne and Wear.[1] It received prominence in the media as the first school to relaunch under the Fresh Start programme; a government initiative where failing schools reopen with renovations and new names, staff and headteachers. Firfield reopened in September 1998, replacing the failed Blakelaw Comprehensive School,[4][5] which had been considered by Channel 4 and the government to be "the worst school in Britain".[6][7] The school closed in 2002 after a financial deficit and decline in student numbers.[8][1]
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