When the first Chesterton Academy opened its doors nearly two decades ago, there was no grand plan to build a national network. It was just a few parents who wanted an affordable classical Catholic high school for their children. “The network was never a planned thing,” says Brenie Bowles, vice president of the Chesterton Schools Network. “It just came out of a need that grew.”
That need was evident early on. Brenie witnessed it firsthand when he co-founded a Chesterton Academy in Illinois, which was how he initially got involved. “The network was there sort of in name, but not in