A cascaded co-evolutionary model for Attribute reduction and classification based on Coordinating architecture with bidirectional elitist optimization(ARC-CABEO) is proposed for the more practical applications. The regrouping and merging coordinating strategy of ordinary-elitist-role-based population is introduced to represent a more holistic cooperative co-evolutionary framework of different populations for attribute reduction. The master-slave-elitist-based subpopulations are constructed to coordinate the behaviors of different elitists, and meanwhile the elitist optimization vector with the strongest balancing between exploration and exploitation is selected out to expedite the bidirectional attribute co-evolutionary reduction process. In addition, two coupled coordinating architectures and the elitist optimization vector are tightly cascaded to perform the co-evolutionary classification of reduction subsets. Hence the preferring classification optimization goal can be achieved better. Some experimental results verify that the proposed ARC-CABEO model has the better feasibility and more superior classification accuracy on different UCI datasets, compared with representative algorithms. A regu- lation and merging coordinating strategy of ordinary-elitist-role-based population is introduced to represent a more holistic cooperative co-evolutionary framework of different populations for attribute reduction. The master-slave-elitist-based subpopulations are constructed to coordinate the behaviors of different elitists, and meanwhile the elitist optimization vector with the strongest balancing between exploration and exploitation is selected out to expedite the bidirectional attribute co-evolutionary reduction process. In addition, two coupled coordinating architectures and the elitist optimization vector are tightly cascaded to perform the co-evolutionary classification of reduction subsets. Hence the preferring classification optimization goal can be achieved bett er. Some experimental results verify that the proposed ARC-CABEO model has the better feasibility and more superior classification accuracy on different UCI datasets, compared with representative algorithms.