In her fifth season, Allison Boehm has taken the Holy Ghost Prep rowing program to amazing heights. She has produced six current collegiate rowers and has coached HGP’s top boat to nationals the past two years running. Here is a 2024 spring season preview of HGP rowing.
HGP News
On April 14, Rev. Dan Sormani, C.S. Sp. will celebrate Holy Ghost Prep's fourth annual Multicultural Mass to celebrate the student diversity that greatly enriches Holy Ghost Prep. After Mass, a potluck luncheon is held with home-cooked foods from all around the globe.
Holy Ghost Prep’s College Guidance Office continued its tradition of offering a college bus tour trip during spring break for current Holy Ghost Prep sophomores and juniors. This year's tour took 42 HGP students on visits to Southern schools.
Longtime Bucks County Courier Times sportswriter Tom Moore recently wrote a remembrance piece about the 50th anniversary of Holy Ghost Prep winning the 1973-74 PIAA Class C boys basketball state championship. (photo of Bob Welsh holding the 1974 championship trophy is courtesy of the Bucks County Courier Times)
As part of the Spiritan immersion program, Holy Ghost Prep recently sponsored its annual 29th mission trip to West Virginia. Thirteen HGP students were joined by three teachers—John Fitzpatrick, Bill Pitts, and Pat McGhee—on the excursion to St. Alban’s, West Virginia and the Hezekiah House where the Ghost contingent worked in 2023.
The Holy Ghost Prep lacrosse team is a hungry and competitive squad with strong leadership provided by team captains Bobby Williams, Matteo DiCiccio, Michael Holt, and Michael Malpezzi.
Why HGP?
At Holy Ghost Prep, a premier all-boys high school, classes are small, so interaction is a given. With a 9-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, our unmatched faculty will get to personally know each student, as well as his hopes and dreams. All of our graduates go to college, so students leave Ghost perfectly equipped to make those dreams come true.
Signature HGP Programs
Forensics
Our forensics program, led by Pat McGhee, is a national power that has produced over 100 individual state champions and 27 individual national champions.
College Guidance
One of Holy Ghost Prep’s undeniable strengths is our success in finding the right fit college for each student. One hundred percent of our students go onto college—many of them to the finest colleges and universities in the country.
Robotics Program
Holy Ghost Prep’s Robotics students use the Engineering Design Process to design and build VEX robots for competition.
LEAP
Our one-of-a-kind Leadership Externship Advantage Program (LEAP) partners Holy Ghost Prep juniors with alumni who have succeeded in the professional world.
Service Immersion
HGP students learn to serve others on school-sponsored mission trips to the Dominican Republic, Tanzania, and West Virginia.