News Report | February 27, 2020
Number Of Unsheltered Homeless Students Rose 137% From 2015 to 2018
The number of unsheltered homeless public school students increased by 137% between 2015 and 2018, from 43,245 in the 2015-2016 school year to 102,527 students in the 2017-2018 school year. During the same period, the overall number of homeless students rose by 15%, from 1,303,207 students in 2015-2016 to 1,507,904 students in 2017-2018. There were about 50.8 million public school students during 2015 and 2018.
Unsheltered students include those living in cars, abandoned buildings, and other places not meant for humans to live. Other homeless students considered "sheltered" were . . .