Holy Name Academy, a boarding high school for girls, located on Holt Avenue in Pomona, California, closed its doors in June 1948.

In September of that year, it was reopened by Monsignor English, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, as a high school for both boys and girls of the parish and surrounding parishes.

It continues to provide Catholic education for students who come from as far as Riverside on the east and Baldwin Park in the west.

Pomona Catholic Boys High School (now Damien High School) opened in nearby La Verne in 1959 to freshman boys only.

The last boys graduated from the original Pomona Catholic High School in 1962.