Namaste Elem Charter School

Set in Chicago, Illinois, Namaste Elem Charter School is a moderately sized elementary campus, run under Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. It instructs 364 students across grades K through 8.

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

Demographically, Namaste Elem Charter School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Namaste Elem Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Namaste Elem Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.4%; this one delivers 33.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Namaste Elem Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Evergreen Academy Elem School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Namaste Elem Charter School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The school occupies an urban site. As a public charter, Namaste Elem Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Namaste Elem Charter School has edged down 26%, going from 491 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025.

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