| Bishop Walsh School | |
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| Address | |
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700 Bishop Walsh Road , 21502 United States | |
| Coordinates | 39°39′40″N78°47′27″W / 39.66111°N 78.79083°W /39.66111; -78.79083 |
| Information | |
| Type | Private,Coeducational |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1966 |
| Oversight | Archdiocese of Baltimore |
| President | Joe Carter |
| Principal | Jennifer Flinn |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Enrollment | 350 (2020) |
| Average class size | 20 |
| Color(s) | Burgundy andWhite |
| Mascot | Spartan |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Newspaper | Walsh Street Journal |
| Yearbook | The Warrior |
| Website | http://www.bishopwalsh.org |
Bishop Walsh School is aK-12Catholic school located inCumberland, Maryland, and under the jurisdiction of theArchdiocese of Baltimore. Approximately 350 students attend. The school also hosts a pre-K program and operates the St. Michael's pre-K program inFrostburg.
The school was founded by theChristian Brothers, a monastic order, and is named in honor of the BishopJames Walsh, a Cumberland-bornmissionary and member of theMaryknoll order, who preached in China and was imprisoned in solitary confinement by itsCommunist government for twelve years.[1] When Walsh was finally released from prison in 1970 he was greeted by Pope Paul VI on August 25, 1970. He died at the age of ninety on July 29, 1981.
Opening in 1969, the school was originally Bishop Walsh High School (BW) and replaced four other Catholic high schools: La Salle, Ursuline Academy, Girls Central, and St. Peter's. In the mid-1980s, St. Mary's Elementary school closed and St. Patrick's and St. Peter & Paul reorganized as a grade school and middle school. Later, the grade school became St. John Neuman and BW became a middle/high school.
In the 2001-2002 school year, it combined withSt. John Neumann Elementary School and St. Peter's Elementary School in Westernport, to form a K-12 school. (St. John Neumann school, located on the corner of Fayette and Smallwood streets, has since been torn down.) The school is run in part by the Catholic organization theSchool Sisters of Notre Dame. The Christian Brothers served the Cumberland, MD area for over 100 years until 2011 when the last of the remaining Brothers were reassigned from Bishop Walsh.[2] The school's sports teams are called the Spartans after the warriors of ancientSparta.
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Bishop Walsh's athletic teams compete in the Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference (AMAC) in all sports except football. They also compete against rivalsFort Hill High School andAllegany High School forCumberland City championships in all sports exceptfootball.
