HFCS Academics

Holy Family Catholic School provides a Christ-centered education that strives for excellence and success for each student. We embrace a three-fold academic purpose:

• To ensure mastery and application of basic academic skills.
• To promote critical thinking, social growth, environmental awareness, and increased faith and understanding.
• To offer challenging and stimulating enrichment opportunities to help students reach their full potential.

Our religion classes are designed to foster a deep understanding of Catholic doctrine; however, students of all faiths are warmly welcomed. In addition to religious education, our students participate in sacrament preparation and grade-level retreats. At Holy Family, we worship as a faith community, sharing in daily prayer, student-led weekly Mass, and other seasonal devotional activities.

We do not believe in a “one-size-fits-all” approach to teaching and learning. Various instructional practices can be seen in our classrooms daily, and we will often accelerate our curriculum based on student needs.

Outside our core curriculum, we offer challenging academic enrichment activities through meaningful field trips, school assemblies, and presentations by respected community leaders. We utilize technology through one-to-one Chromebooks in grades 4-8 and age-appropriate introductions in our primary grades through our computer and mobile iPad labs. We also use technology to embrace best practices in assessment and data gathering to monitor our student’s progress and academic achievement.

Holy Family Catholic School recognizes that each child is a gift from God and that each child has unique gifts given by God.  Each child learns differently, and our teachers are skilled at differentiating their instruction to meet the varying needs of each child in the classroom.