St. Cecilia High School was a catholic school connected to the St. Cecilia Church in Englewood. Most famously, Vincent Lombardi worked at the school as an athletic coach and led football and basketball teams to national championships. It closed in 1986.
In 1866, the Catholic Church completed the construction at St.Cecilia’s Church after Reverand Dr. Henry Brann initiated the building in 1865.
The church opened its doors to the growing Italian and Irish Catholic population in Englewood. Reverand Silverius J. Quigley founded the first Catholic coeducational high school in Bergen County in 1924. St. Cecilia’s elementary, junior high, and high school educated generations of Englewood youth. The high school closed in 1986 and the elementary school closed in 2011 or 2012.
St.Cecilia’s gained national recognition in the 1940s after it hired a young coach named Vince Lombardi, who turned the basketball and football programs into state champions.
