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Conwell-Egan Catholic Highschool

History

Conwell-Egan Catholic High School's history began in 1957 as Bishop Egan High School, a co-institutional school located on Levittown Parkway in Levittown, Pennsylvania. August of 1957, the new faculty of Conwell-Egan Catholic was assigned. The principle was, Father Regis Stafford, and the other staff included seven priests, eight sisters, and one layman. The brand-new school opened on September 5th, 1957. The attendance was 353 fresh-man, and 254 sophomore students.

In 1966, because of the burgeoning population in the Lower Bucks County area, Bishop Egan was separated into two schools: Bishop Egan for boys, located in a new facility in Fairless Hills, and Bishop Conwell for girls, located in the original building in Levittown. The girls school Bishop Conwell was opened in 1965.

Twenty-six years later, in 1993, the two schools were merged to form Conwell-Egan Catholic High School. During the 90s the Archdiocese allowed the students to an open enrollment policy, meaning the students preferring to go to a Catholic school could choice which catholic school in the Archdiocese they pleased.

On January 6, 2012, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that Conwell-Egan Catholic, along with three other Catholic high schools in the Philadelphia region, would permanently close at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. [3]

Conwell-Egan Catholic appealed the decision to the Archdiocese, citing the fact that it is the only Catholic high school in Lower Bucks County. Major efforts were put in place to save the school, including the raising of over 3 million dollars. On February 24, nearly seven weeks after the closing announcement, Archibishop Chaput announced that Conwell-Egan and the three other high schools slated to close would remain open. Archbishop Chaput's reasons for keeping the school open were the major fundraising efforts and support from current students, parents, teachers, and alumni.

On November 15th, 2017 students, teachers, staff, and alumni of Conwell-Egan Catholic, were surprised and excited to receive the gift of a 5 million dollar grant. They received the grant from Danaher Lynch Family Foundation. The foundation that was donated the money was establish by Tom Lynch and his wife Patty to help support Catholic school education in the surrounding areas. Conwell-Egan Catholic later released that they would be using the donation to fund sport scholarships, creating a center for student leadership, infrastructure of the school, and also anything they can do to improve the catholic education the provide for their students. 

Conwell-Egan Catholic continues its mission of providing the best possible Catholic education for secondary students in the Lower Bucks County area and beyond.

Academics

Conwell-Egan Catholic High School offers a comprehensive curriculum, with some students opting to take Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses. It is the purpose of the academic program at Conwell-Egan Catholic to develop students’ abilities and talents by preparing them for post secondary education.

Conwell-Egan Catholics education is opened to all types of religions, but does require each student to attend all theology classes needed to graduate the high school.

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Sports: (these sources are coming from the student handbook

[null Conwell-Egan Catholic has several extracurricular activities and sports teams. On] March 21, 2015 the boys’ basketball team won the PIAA class AA State Championship. This was the school's first basketball state title.[5]

Conwell-Egan Catholic has several extracurricular activities and sports teams. The school has 20 athletics teams, and 23 current extra-curricular organizations and clubs.

Spirit Night:

“Spirit Night is the Most Anticipated Student Event of the Year”. Spirit Night brings the entire school against each other in competition and is almost completely student run. The school is split into two teams blue and white. The first half of the alphabet is on white, and the other half on blue. All the way from January to April, the students mix music, decorate costumes, learn dances, paint giant murals, and invent sports games for the sport section of the night.