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Enrollment
755
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993006380
Moving Everest Charter School
416 N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL 60644 · (312) 683-9695 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL755 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
685 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 83 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 22% smaller than its 8th grade class (83).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
24.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
12.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.5% | 12.4% |
| 2023-24 | 14.9% | 5.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Moving Everest Charter School
Moving Everest Charter School's state test result (17.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moving Everest Charter School this school | 755 | 90.7% | 17.6% |
| Bouchet Elementary Math & Science Academy Chicago | 660 | 95.3% | 21.7% |
| Dulles Elementary School Chicago | 651 | 95.7% | 8.8% |
| The Elise Ford Allen Academy Peoria | 642 | 97.0% | 6.8% |
| Powell Elementary Paideia Comm Academy Chicago | 542 | 88.6% | 17.1% |
| Shoop Math-Sci Tech Elementary Academy Chicago | 515 | 91.3% | 20.0% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Moving Everest Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #1,686 of 1,925 | #619 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.4% | #1,817 of 2,077 ▲ 27 | #659 of 829 ▲ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #1,820 of 2,077 ▼ 58 | #703 of 829 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 755 | #85 of 2,419 | #59 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #1,141 of 2,035 | #512 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.0% | #1,846 of 2,042 | #704 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #257 of 2,132 | #186 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +108.6% | #9 of 615 | #1 of 186 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
755
+120 (+19%) vs 2020
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 755 | 55 | 13.7:1 | 91% (685) |
| 2023-24 | 768 | 57 | 13.5:1 | 92% (708) |
| 2022-23 | 770 | 34 | 22.6:1 | 93% (715) |
| 2020-21 | 635 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 362 | N/A | N/A | 93% (335) |
| 2015-16 | 170 | N/A | N/A | 92% (157) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Moving Everest Charter School.
About Moving Everest Charter School
Moving Everest Charter School is an elementary school located in Chicago, Illinois, in Cook County. The school offers kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 755 students. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 enrolls 324,396 students, and its 622 schools include Moving Everest Charter School.
Black students are 94% of those enrolled at Moving Everest Charter School. The remaining shares are 6% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Cook County's population at about 22%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 12, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 55 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.7:1. That is in line with the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 91%. Compared with the 66% average for public schools in Cook County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Moving Everest Charter School outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Moving Everest Charter School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 17.6%, compared with a predicted 19.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Cook County area, median household income comes to about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Cook County counts 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students.
Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Moving Everest Charter School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Moving Everest Charter School ranks 2nd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Moving Everest Charter School operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
Enrollment increased 19% over 4 years, reaching 755 in 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Nearby schools
- Spencer Technology Academy Elementary School0.4 mi · 427
- Howe Elementary School0.4 mi · 341
- Austin College and Career Academy High School0.4 mi · 190
- Nash Elementary School0.5 mi · 255
- KIPP Academy Chicago Campus0.5 mi · 649
- Ellington Elementary School0.6 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About Moving Everest Charter SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Moving Everest Charter School?
Moving Everest Charter School enrolls approximately 755 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Moving Everest Charter School serve?
Moving Everest Charter School serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Moving Everest Charter School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Moving Everest Charter School is approximately 13.7:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Moving Everest Charter School?
At Moving Everest Charter School, the student body is approximately 6% Hispanic, 94% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Moving Everest Charter School public or private?
Moving Everest Charter School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
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