On March 24, 2020, it was announced that Hopkins School and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford agreed to settle a sexual abuse lawsuit involving a Catholic priest who was regularly allowed to teach at the school and who was accused of sexually abusing boys while teaching at the school between at least 1990 and 1991. Both Hopkins and the Archdiocese of Hartford were accused of covering up the sex abuse and shielding the priest from potential prosecution. The combined settlement totaled $7.48 million. The accused priest, Glenn Goncalo, committed suicide in 1991 as arrangements were being made for him to turn himself over to the police. It was also reported that reports of sexual abuse at Hopkins dated as far back as 1970.