List of schools of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

An August 27, 2015 article by the Chicago Tribune refers to the Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Schools as the largest private school system in the United States.

[3] As of 2015[update], the Superintendent of Catholic Schools is Jim Rigg, Ph.D.[1] The school construction boom ended when Cardinal John Cody, archbishop at the time, decided to limit construction of Catholic schools in Lake County and suburban areas in Cook County.

[5] By 2005, over 50% of the Chicago Archdiocese Catholic schools that existed in 1966 no longer did.

[4] In 1985, Joseph Bernardin, then the head of the archdiocese, stated that as costs increased to operate Catholic schools, it was likely merging or closure would result.

In 2020 this figure declined to circa 71,000, and that year the archdiocese closed five grade schools.