With an enrollment of 730, Bishop England is the largest private high school in the state of South Carolina.

The school was founded in 1915 and was named after John England, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston.

By the spring of 1916, a growing student enrollment made larger quarters imperative, and the school was moved to a building used by the Cenacle Sisters, an order of nuns, where it remained until 1919.

The main building housed the senior high school, and an annex was converted into a biology lab and a seventh grade classroom.

The Catholic community of Charleston sponsored two expansion drives for the high school in the late 1940s; two new buildings were added to the campus.

The 1964 school year began with a new rector, the Reverend Robert J. Kelly, and enrollment grew to nearly 800 students.

In September 1995, Bishop David B Thompson officially announced that the school was moving to Daniel Island and its current property would be sold to the College of Charleston.

[2] The Daniel Island Development Company, which was partially owned by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, donated 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land for the school.

In 2011, the Bishop England athletic program won its 100th overall state championship, making it the most successful in South Carolina history.

Mary Ann Bolchoz Tucker, Class of 1984 and faculty member since 1989, became the first alumna to serve as principal On May 2, 2019, former employee Jeffrey Scofield was arrested for voyeurism charges.

On February 4, 2021, the school and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston were sued for $300 million due to the invasion of privacy and potential sexual exploitation the windows provided.

[6] Four days later, another lawsuit was filed by a female student, claiming that the school was negligent in not protecting her from being filmed and not catching Scofield sooner.

[7] During the 2024 season, Bishop England and Philip Simmons faced numerous threats, including bombings and shootings, directed at each other.

Additionally, Bishop England students made racist comments toward the Philip Simmons players.

In a close of the 2010's special edition, the Bishop England athletic program was named number one in the state of South Carolina, regardless of size, by Sports Illustrated,[10] In 2013, sports publication MaxPreps ranked Bishop England's athletic program 5th in the nation in a combined rankings list of both public and private schools.

"[11] In a 2020 special report, MaxPreps again named Bishop England the state's most successful high school athletic program.

[15] Bishop England's overall state title count in all sports currently stands at 155, the highest of any South Carolina school.