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Cornelia Connelly High School

Private, all-female school in Anaheim, , California, United States

Cornelia Connelly School
Address
2323 West Broadway Anaheim , (Orange County) , California 92804 United States
Coordinates	33°49′46″N 117°57′51″W / 33.82944°N 117.96417°W / 33.82944; -117.96417
Information
Type	Private, All-Female
Motto	Lead, Serve, Inspire
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic[1]
Patron saint(s)	Cornelia Connelly
Established	1961
Founder	Sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus
Closed	2020
Superintendent	Greg Dhuyvetter
Head of school	Jacqueline Sienkowski
Campus Minister	Cathy Townsend
Teaching staff	16.6 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Grades	9-12[1]
Enrollment	163[1] (2015-2016)
Average class size	15
Color(s)	Maroon and white
Athletics conference	San Joaquin League
Team name	Koalas
Accreditation	Western Association of Schools and Colleges[2] WCEA, CAIS
Tuition	$15,900 (2019–2020)
Affiliation	Holy Child Network of Schools
Website	connellyschoolanaheim.org

Cornelia Connelly School of the Holy Child Jesus (Connelly), was a Catholic college-preparatory high school for girls in Anaheim, California, the only such independent school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. It operated from 1961 to 2020.^[3]

At the time of its closure, Connelly enrolled 124 girls,^[4] and was accredited to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and Western Catholic Educational Association among others.^[5]

The school was established in 1961 by the Sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, and named after Cornelia Connelly, founder of that Roman Catholic religious institute. It was one of thirteen Holy Child schools in the world, and through the Holy Child Exchange Program, students could spend part of their school year at other Holy Child schools in the U.S., England, Ireland, or Ghana.^[6]

Connelly's Board of Trustees voted in October 2019 to close the school permanently at the end of the 2019–20 academic year, citing "years of diminishing enrollment, increased debt, and shortfalls in fundraising efforts."^[7]

• Nancy Barry '67 - Founder and President of Women's World Banking^[8]
• Gihan Ibrahim '05 - Egyptian citizen journalist and revolutionary socialist^[9]
• Casey Johnson '08 - Swimmer for the US at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, winning the bronze medal in freestyle relay; swimmer for the US at the 2008 Summer Paralympics^[10]
• Mary Kay Letourneau - teacher convicted of raping her 12-year-old student.^[11]

• Official website

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