Despite their well-established “brand name” and demonstrated success building the knowledge, skills, and character of children in America’s most underserved neighborhoods for more than a century, Catholic schools have seen enrollment plummet by more than 50 percent over the last four decades. Since 2010, more than 1,400 Catholic schools have been closed or consolidated, accelerating a school closure rate of about 1,000 per decade since 1960. Most of these were elementary schools in our inner cities, serving large numbers of Hispanic and African American children. If this trend continues, most of the remaining urban Catholic schools will cease to exist, leaving hundreds of thousands of children with few if any options beyond the failing public schools in their neighborhoods.