Donovan Catholic has created an enhanced learning community though the educational vehicle known as block scheduling.

Each course meets for approximately twice the standard instructional time than is offered under the traditional schedule.

Monsignor Donovan offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including English Literature and Composition, United States History, World History, Psychology, Calculus AB & BC, Biology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, and Physics.

Students who excel at Donovan Catholic and who meet particular standards of academics, service, leadership, and character may apply for entry to the National Honor Society.

The Donovan Catholic High School Griffins[5] compete in Division B South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.

[13] The athletic teams compete in the following sports: football, soccer, powerlifting, baseball, hockey, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, cheerleading, softball, lacrosse, tennis, golf, wrestling, track and field, volleyball, sailing, bowling, and cross country running.

The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.

[citation needed] They also won the CT State High School Sailing Championship in 2005 and 2008.

[18] The boys' and girls' varsity bowling teams both took 1st place in the Shore Conference in the 2009–10 season, and the Boys took 2nd place in the Sectionals Tournament, and in the States tournament, took 2nd place in their group The Donovan Catholic girls' swimming team won the Ocean County Championship for the first time in school history during the 2007–08 season, a first for a non-public school, then repeated in 2008–09.