Thousands of students in school districts across New York show up to school while dealing with homelessness, according to state data.
Nearly 80,000 New York students were homeless during the 2021-2022 school year, the data says. The vast majority of those — more than 66,000 — were in New York City. That’s 7.3% of all students in the city.
Statewide, the district with the highest percentage of homeless students for the 2021-2022 year was Hempstead in Nassau County on Long Island. More than 11% of students in the district were homeless that year, according to state data.
The Upstate New York district with the highest figure was Hermon-DeKalb Central near Potsdam, with 8.7% of students homeless.
In Central New York, the Syracuse City School District had the highest percentage at 4.17%.
You can see details on homeless students in 672 New York school districts in the table below. If you can’t see the table, click here to open this story in web browser.
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The count of homeless students includes any student who had no fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence, according to the state. It includes students who are sharing homes with other people due to loss of their own housing or other economic problem.
It also includes kids living in motels, hotels, trailer parks or campgrounds due to a lack of alternatives, the state said. Students living in shelters, abandoned buildings, bus or train stations and cars are included as well.
Children in foster care are not part of the homeless counts, according to the state.
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