Moving Everest Charter School

As a well-populated K-5 school in Chicago, Illinois, Moving Everest Charter School caters to 755 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Enrollment runs roughly 98% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Moving Everest Charter School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moving Everest Charter School lists that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Moving Everest Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.6%.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Moving Everest Charter School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Spencer Technology Acad Elem Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Moving Everest Charter School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Moving Everest Charter School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 15.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Moving Everest Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 109%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 755 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.