The Archdiocese of Milwaukee's system of Catholic schools currently consists of 95 elementary schools and 15 high schools in the 10-county region of southeastern Wisconsin. According to the National Catholic Educational Association's (NCEA's) 2017-2018 "Annual Statistical Report on Schools, Enrollment, and Staffing," Milwaukee ranks 12th nationally in school enrollment and 9th in number of schools (McDonald & Schultz, 2018). In 2012, a team of three associate superintendents, principal advisory councils, and Office for Catholic Schools collaborators were invited to consider establishing the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools (NSBECS) as the single framework for all work related to Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee including, but not limited to, school accreditation, the Archdiocesan Exemplary Recognition Program, the Teacher Effectiveness Framework, school improvement planning, and teacher and principal evaluations. In 2012 the Wisconsin (arch)diocesan school leaders began to align statewide Catholic elementary school accreditation standards with the NSBECS as well. Approved by the Wisconsin Catholic Conference of Bishops in 2014, this new process, based completely on the NSBECS, is now the premier and preferred accreditation tool for all Catholic elementary schools in Wisconsin. Information about the Wisconsin Catholic Schools Accreditation tool may be accessed in this report. [For the "United States Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools 2017-2018. The Annual Statistical Report on Schools, Enrollment and Staffing," see ED591954.]