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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary / Charter

Namaste Elem Charter School

Chicago, Illinois

NCES ID
170993005102
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Namaste Elem Charter School is a public primary school in Chicago, Illinois, run by City of Chicago SD 299. It enrols 415 students — the 48721st largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

415students

48721st nationally, tied with 119

Free or reduced-price lunch

69.6%percent

31282nd nationally, tied with 94

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within City of Chicago SD 299

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Lane Technical High School4,496 students
  2. 2Taft High School4,464 students
  3. 3Curie Metropolitan High School3,178 students
  4. 4Kenwood Academy High School2,338 students
  5. 5Young Magnet High School2,148 students
  6. 6Lincoln Park High School2,107 students
  7. 7Jones College Prep High School1,941 students
  8. 8Thomas Kelly College Preparatory1,903 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+2.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+30.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.