The school was established in 1981, a parents co-op home school with a few students. As of today, we have 200 students, 16 classes from grade level pre-school to 10^th grade. Since 1992, the school has been accredited by the Illinois State Board of Education as a foreign language school. In the following year, school districts 113, 125, 211, 214 and 220 accepted the Foreign language credit transfer from students who earned Chinese language credits from CNSCS. 

CNSCS is a member of Midwest Chinese Schools Association. School students also participate Midwest area Speech Contest, Vocabulary Contest, Hi-Hwa sports activities (Basketball, Tennis, Internal Dance Performance, etc), Chicago New Year Celebration Program, etc.

The Chicago Northwest Suburban Chinese School (CNSCS) is a not-for-profit private school and does not discriminate in its admission and hiring practices with regard to race, gender, religion and/or national/ethnic origin.