NEW YORK (WABC) — A record 154,000 public school students were homeless during the last school year, according to Advocates for Children of New York.
The nonprofit organization said this is the 10th consecutive year where more than 100,000 students did not have a permanent place to call home.
If the homeless students had their own school district, it would be one of the 20 largest educational systems in the country.
Nearly all the homeless sleep in shelters or overcrowded apartments with other families.
The overall rate of student homelessness rose in every borough, relative to 2023-24, and was once again the highest in the Bronx, followed by Manhattan, the nonprofit reported.
Only two of the City’s 32 community school districts, district 26 in northeast Queens and district 31, Staten Island, had an overall rate of student homelessness below 7%.
You can find the report’s full findings at: https://advocatesforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/student_homelessness_2024-25.pdf
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