Table 204.75a.

Homeless students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, by grade, primary nighttime residence, and selected student characteristics: 2009-10 through 2014-15

Grade, primary nighttime residence, or selected student characteristic	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-151
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Total number of homeless students2	910,439	1,047,397	1,128,503	1,216,117	1,285,641	1,260,721
As a percent of total public school       enrollment	1.8	2.1	2.3	2.4	2.6	2.5
Total number, by grade and nighttime       residence
Grade
Prekindergarten3	28,871	32,966	32,866	38,281	47,976	39,381
Kindergarten	82,378	89,589	105,795	115,943	112,343	118,470
Grade 1	83,675	92,153	104,554	113,226	121,159	116,464
Grade 2	80,437	88,125	96,845	105,311	113,238	111,189
Grade 3	77,594	86,253	93,214	99,446	107,574	105,739
Grade 4	73,942	82,570	88,809	94,303	99,005	98,221
Grade 5	69,605	79,314	85,224	89,769	93,912	91,647
Grade 6	65,238	75,867	80,962	86,880	89,965	87,844
Grade 7	61,009	71,412	76,481	82,159	86,659	83,924
Grade 8	60,186	69,406	73,528	79,516	83,404	82,122
Grade 9	66,474	79,897	81,262	90,139	97,129	94,508
Grade 10	54,510	68,484	69,396	72,673	77,486	76,951
Grade 11	47,835	59,120	63,078	66,519	69,619	68,729
Grade 12	54,030	68,532	73,687	79,260	83,671	83,022
Ungraded4	4,655	3,709	2,802	2,692	2,501	2,510
Primary nighttime residence5
Doubled-up or shared housing6	648,233	741,460	849,684	917,122	978,463	957,053
Hotels or motels	45,727	53,499	62,530	69,179	78,767	82,187
Shelters, transitional housing, or       awaiting foster care placement	172,644	177,028	174,472	173,397	183,653	180,302
Unsheltered7	38,450	74,044	40,151	39,108	41,738	39,327
Number with selected characteristics
Unaccompanied homeless youth8	—	—	—	78,654	88,390	94,800
English language learners9	—	—	—	174,821	190,256	181,764
Migrant students10	—	—	—	16,231	18,588	17,748
Students with disabilities11	—	—	—	190,050	217,048	215,630

—Not available.

1 The decrease in homeless students in 2014-15 was caused in part by changes to California's data collection systems. For more information, see section 1.9.1.1 of California's 2014-15 Consolidated State Performance Report, available at https://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/consolidated/sy14-15part1/ca.pdf.

2 The sum of counts by grade.

3 Homeless children 3 to 5 years old who are not in kindergarten.

4 Includes students reported as being enrolled in grade 13.

5 Does not sum to the total number of homeless students because of missing data on primary nighttime residence. (Counts by primary nighttime residence differ from those shown in the total row by less than 2 percent for 2012-13 and less than 1 percent for all other years.)

6 Refers to temporarily sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or other reasons (such as domestic violence).

7 Includes living in cars, parks, campgrounds, temporary trailers--including Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailers--or abandoned buildings.

8 Youth who are not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. Includes youth living on their own and youth living with a caregiver who is not their legal guardian.

9 Students who met the definition of limited English proficient students as outlined in the EDFacts workbook. For more information, see http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/eden-workbook.html.

10 Students who met the definition of eligible migrant children as outlined in the EDFacts workbook. Such students are either migratory workers or the children or spouses of migratory workers and have moved within the preceding 36 months in order to obtain, or to accompany parents or spouses who moved in order to obtain, temporary or seasonal employment in agricultural or fishing work. For more information, see http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/eden-workbook.html. Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Rhode Island, and West Virginia did not operate a migrant education program during the 2012-13, 2013-14, and 2014-15 school years and therefore had no data to provide on migrant homeless students.

11 Includes only students with disabilities who were served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

NOTE: Homeless students are defined as children/youth who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. For more information, see "C118 - Homeless Students Enrolled" at https://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/edfacts/sy-14-15-nonxml.html. Data include all homeless students enrolled at any time during the school year. Data exclude Puerto Rico and the Bureau of Indian Education. This table is based on state-level data.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 118, Data Group 655, extracted October 14, 2016, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education Source); and Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 2009-10 through 2014-15. (This table was prepared March 2017.)