Holy Family Performance Profile

Holy Family Catholic Schools is committed to providing a faith-rich environment, dedicated to academic excellence and a culture of service. The Holy Family performance profile provides an at-a-glance view of system-wide performance measures, indicators of college and career readiness and more.

We hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Wahlert Catholic High School has a 100% graduation rate.

Ninety-seven percent of Wahlert Catholic High School class of 2023 went on to post-secondary education & specialized training (including military).

Wahlert was recognized on the 2023 AP Honor Roll for its success in delivering results while expanding student access.

Enrollment Summary

Certified K-12 Enrollment

Wahlert Catholic High School 456
Mazzuchelli Catholic Middle School 358
Our Lady of Guadalupe 253
Resurrection Elementary 292
St. Columbkille Elementary 289
System 1,648

Student Ethnicity

Wahlert 2% 3% 5% 90%
Mazzuchelli 1% 4% 5% 90%
Our Lady of Guadalupe 2% 8% 14% 76%
Resurrection 1% 3% 1% <1% 93% 1%
St. Columbkille 2% 3% 94% 1%
System 1% 4% 5% <1% 89% 1%

Financial Assistance

While no family pays the full cost to educate, thanks to our supporting parishes, forty-nine percent of families received an additional form of tuition assistance in the 2022-2023 school year.

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K-12 Academic Achievement Indicators

Learn more about our assessment tools:

FAST (Grades K-8)

FAST stands for Formative Assessment System for Teachers. With three testing periods in the school year, FAST provides screening and progress monitoring of current reading and math skills to help identify intervention needs. The assessment is a checkpoint measurement of a student's understanding of concepts taught at a certain point in the year. This chart represents the percentage of students at or above proficiency at the testing checkpoint, systemwide.

Our Lady of Guadalupe K-1 students are not screened for English due to participation in full immersion programming.
Spring 22-23 83% 85%
Spring 21-22 78% 80%

Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP) (grades 3–11)

ISASP is s a grade-level summative assessment of students’ knowledge of the Iowa Core Academic Standards.

* Science is assessed in grades 5, 8 and 10

Advanced or Proficient in English Language Arts Advanced or Proficient in Mathematics Advanced or Proficient in Science*
22-23 HFCS State HFCS State HFCS State
3 85% 66% 89% 76% n/a n/a
4 91% 73% 89% 73% n/a n/a
5 98% 69% 89% 71% 93% 63%
6 92% 73% 86% 70% n/a n/a
7 92% 74% 86% 68% n/a n/a
8 97% 76% 95% 72% 90% 66%
9 97% 70% 86% 61% n/a n/a
10 96% 73% 89% 66% 87% 62%
11 93% 69% 82% 67% n/a n/a

PreACT (Grades 9–10)

Designed for high school freshmen and sophomores, the PreACT is an exam that familiarizes students with the ACT and provides our school the opportunity to establish appropriate and personalized preparations for juniors taking the ACT.

Predicted Score Ranges:

17 → 18 - 22
18 → 19 - 23
19 → 20 - 24
20 → 21 - 25
21 → 22 - 26
22 → 23 - 27
23 → 24 - 28

24 → 25 - 29
25 → 26 - 30
26 → 27 - 31
27 → 28 - 32
28 → 29 - 33
29 → 30- 34
30 → 31 - 35
31 → 32 - 35
32 + → 36

English Reading Science Math Composite
23-24 Fall 17.4 22.1 20.0 19.9 19.9
22-23 Fall 17.2 21.7 19.5 18.5 19.4
21-22 Fall 17.5 20.8 19.6 20.1 19.7

College and Career Readiness

Class of 2023 Quick Stats

High School Graduation Rate

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Post Secondary Education & Training

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College Credits Earned

There are at numerous courses for college credit consistently offered at Wahlert Catholic High School including AP, PSEO, PICC, and dual-enrollment courses. Additional opportunities are identified with students who express special interests or demonstrate advanced programming needs. Personalized academic plans are designed to meet all students' needs.

2023 15
2022 13
2021 11
2020 10
2019 7

ACT Readiness Benchmarks

The ACT College Readiness Benchmarks are the minimum ACT test scores required for students to have a reasonable chance of success in first-year credit-bearing college courses at the typical college.

The data reported here demonstrate the percentage of Wahlert Catholic students ready for college-level coursework.

English Math Reading Science All
School State* School State* School State* School State* School State*
2023 79% 61% 46% 37% 60% 50% 44% 40% 29% 26%
2022 76% 65% 41% 40% 54% 52% 48% 43% 27% 28%
2021 76% 64% 50% 41% 56% 52% 50% 44% 36% 29%
2020 88% 62% 50% 40% 61% 50% 52% 40% 38% 26%
2019 82% 67% 61% 44% 68% 52% 57% 44% 43% 29%

ACT Composite

With a substantially higher number of students taking the ACT than the state norm, Wahlert Catholic High School's average ACT composite still exceeds the state average ACT composite by two percentage points.

2023 21.8 20.8 19.5 92% 48% 37%
2022 22.1 21.4 19.8 91% 49% 36%
2021 23.1 21.5 20.3 83% 47% 39%
2020 23.4 21.1 20.6 88% 68% 49%
2019 23.6 21.6 20.7 92% 66% 52%
2018 24.3 21.8 20.8 87% 68% 55%

Iowa AP Index

The Iowa AP Index for a given high school is the ratio of AP exams taken by its students (any grade) divided by the number of its graduating seniors.

Source: iowaapindex.org 
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In 2022, Wahlert Catholic High School ranked seventh on the Iowa AP Index, which recognizes the Top 50 Iowa accredited public and nonpublic high schools for providing Advanced Placement opportunities to Iowa's high school students.

AP Scores

More than two-thirds of tests taken by Wahlert Catholic students result in scores of three or more (out of five) -- scores which may be applied for college credit at certain institutions.

2023 199 61%
2022 270 54%
2021 289 55%
2020 305 80%
2019 216 56%
2018 224 71%
2017 299 62%

Iowa Seal of Biliteracy

The Seal of Biliteracy is an award given by a district to recognize students who have attained proficiency in two or more languages, one of which is English, by high school graduation.

Class of 2023
Earned the Iowa Seal of Biliteracy
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2023 109 92%
2022 108 86%
2021 141 90% 90% 93%
2020 109 90% 92% 87%
2019 132 94% 96% 94%
2018 118 91% 91% 97%
2017 127 92% 94% 94% 76%
2016 137 92% 95% 98% 81%
2015 139 91% 93% 94% 77%
2014 127 88% 88% 98% 75%

Student Involvement

Student Involvement

Approximately 90 percent of Mazzuchelli Catholic Middle School and Wahlert Catholic High School students are engaged in co-curricular activities:

 Service Hours Contributed

All Holy Family Catholic Schools students participate in service to the community.  Middle school students are required to contribute at least 15 hours and high school students contribute at least 20 hours per year of service in addition to in-school service projects. Students earning the service cord have personally contributed over 200 hours of service during their high school years. Twenty members of the class of 2023 earned the Wahlert Catholic Service Cord.

The Class of 2023 contributed more than 

5,576

hours of service during their high school years...

...Creating an estimated economic impact of 

$122,355

for the community.