Cardinal Newman High School (Columbia, South Carolina)

Cardinal Newman High School is a diocesan, Roman Catholic middle and high school outside the city limits of Columbia, South Carolina.^{[citation needed]} It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston.^[4]

Cardinal Newman
Address
2945 Alpine Rd Columbia, South Carolina 29223 United States
Coordinates	34°04′33″N 80°55′13″W
Information
Former names	Ursuline Academy Ursuline High School for Young Women Ursuline High School Catholic High School of Columbia[1]
Type	Catholic school
Motto	Truth, Integrity, and Fidelity[2]
Religious affiliation(s)	Catholic
Established	1858 (166 years ago) (1858)
Founders	Ursuline Sisters
NCES School ID	01262804[3].
Principal	Kelly Burke
Grades	7–12
Student to teacher ratio	9.0
Color(s)	Black and Red
Website	www.cnhs.org

History

Originally Ursuline Academy, the school was originally attached to the Ursuline Convent, founded in 1858. The school was burned down by General Sherman's troops in 1865 during the burning of Columbia in the civil war, but was later rebuilt.^[5] It was open to students regardless of religion, and incorporated by the state of South Carolona.^[6] The successor school, Cardinal Newman, was opened in 1961.^[7] The school moved to a 50-acre campus in unincorporated Richland County near Sesquicentennial State Park in spring 2013^[8] and began instruction there in January 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Academic programs

The school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the National Association of Independent Schools, South Carolina Independent School Association, Palmetto Association of Independent Schools, the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the National Catholic Educational Association. ^{[citation needed]}

Feeder schools

Cardinal Newman has four Catholic elementary feeder schools in addition to the local public schools: St. Joseph, St. John Neumann, St. Peter and St. Martin de Porres.^[4]

Notable Alumni

• Ashlyn Watkins (2022), basketball player^[9]

Notes and references

1. CNHS. "Cardinal Newman School: History". Retrieved 2017-01-06.
2. "Cardinal Newman School". Midlands Gives. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
3. "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Cardinal Newman High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved Oct 14, 2021.
4. Team, Diocese of Charleston. "Columbia Catholic Schools". South Carolina Catholic. Archived from the original on 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
5. Curran 2019.
6. Watson 1908, p. 208.
7. Moore 1993, p. 439.
8. "COLUMBIA, SC: Cardinal Newman School announces move to new campus in fall 2015 | Education | the State". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-25.^{[dead link]}
9. "Ashlyn Watkins". University of South Carolina Athletics. 17 August 2022.

Bibliography

• Curran, Robert Emmett (2019). For Church and Confederacy: the Lynches of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina: The University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781611179170.
• Moore, John Hammond (1993). Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1990. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-827-3.
• Sennema, David C.; Sennema, Martha D. (1 July 1997). Columbia, South Carolina: A Postcard History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-1285-9.
• Watson, Ebbie Julian (1908). Handbook of South Carolina; resources, institutions and industries of the state; a summary of the statistics of agriculture , manufactures, geography, climate, geology and physiography, minerals and mining, education, transportation, commerce, government, etc, etc. Columbia, S.C., The State department of agriculture, commerce and immigration ... The State company.

External links

• School website