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HFCA, the only International Baccalaureate World School in suburban Chicago, uses worldwide best practices to develop global thinkers, leaders grounded in faith.

Join us on Thursday, 1/23 at 6:30PM or Friday, 1/24 at 9AM to learn how our full-day kindergarten develops creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking skills in our youngest learners.

Holy Family Catholic Academy (Inverness) has long been regarded as an innovator in educating students in 2-year-old preschool through grade 8. This week that innovation was again recognized and validated. AdvancED, a multinational, non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site reviews of educational institutions, named HFCA as the first middle school program in Illinois to earn STEM Certification. This announcement came just weeks after HFCA was awarded a 2017 Blue Ribbon Award as an Exemplary High Performing School by the US Department of Education.

Holy Family Catholic Academy's Principal, Mrs. Kate O'Brien was recently recognized by the Archdiocese of Chicago for relentlessly fostering excellence in education. In presenting the St. Thomas Aquinas Award, Dr. Jim Rigg, Superintendent of the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools, noted Mrs. O'Brien's commitment to rigor, continuous improvement and emphasis on 21st century instructional practices.

Thank you to all the Student Council members, faculty, and runners who made the Glow Run so much fun! We had over 100 runners from preschool through grade 5 participate to raise money for cancer research. Check out our photo album on Facebook. https://bit.ly/2PmbI9n

HFCA uses a variety of communication tools to reach our busy parents and other interested parties. We are excited to announce that we recently launched our first podcast on the Podbean app.

Holy Family Catholic Academy (Inverness) has received accolades for its nationally and internationally recognized curriculum and instruction. But, at HFCA learning is so much more than test scores and academic achievement. States Principal, Mrs. Kate O’Brien, “Our goal is to develop the whole child and foster an environment where each child is known and supported academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.”

Problem solving is more than finding the right answer-- it is focusing on asking the right questions. And sometimes, those questions require an open mind to challenge long held traditions. Recently, Holy Family Catholic Academy (Inverness) set out to solve a problem and ended up questioning an age-old tradition.

HFCA teachers go beyond textbooks and transform learning by listening to learning by doing.