Study: Student homelessness affects over 146,000 kids in public school system

November 20, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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BROOKLYN/CITYWIDE — STUDENT HOMELESSNESS affects more than 146,000 kids in the NYC public school system, and Brooklyn has some of the most highly impacted neighborhoods, according to data released Monday by Advocates for Children of New York. School districts 32 and 23, which cover portions of Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville and East New York, have a homelessness rate of 20% or more in their student population.

Students in temporary housing face significant educational challenges, with half being chronically absent and 67% of those in shelters missing at least one out of every 10 school days, according to Advocates for Children. Additionally, their English Language Arts proficiency rates in grades 3-8 are more than 20 percentage points lower than their permanently housed peers, and high school dropout rates for students in shelters are triple those of students in stable housing.

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