Table 204.75b.

Number and percentage of homeless students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, by school district locale, primary nighttime residence, and selected student characteristics: 2015-16

Primary nighttime residence or selected student characteristic	Total, all districts	City	Suburban	Town	Rural
1	2	3	4	5	6
	Number
Total public school enrollment	47,793,456	15,552,603	20,556,828	5,255,783	6,428,242
Total number of homeless students1	1,358,985	623,271	432,580	142,956	160,178
Number of homeless students, by primary       nighttime residence2
Doubled-up or shared housing3	1,011,844	432,828	336,756	113,721	128,539
Hotels or motels	87,458	35,071	36,850	8,236	7,301
Shelters, transitional housing, or       awaiting foster care placement	209,782	131,367	48,419	14,573	15,423
Unsheltered4	45,494	21,537	9,784	5,813	8,360
Number of homeless students with selected       characteristics
Unaccompanied homeless youth5	113,874	48,248	33,704	13,894	18,028
English language learners6	207,349	112,280	69,769	14,895	10,405
Migrant students7	16,973	6,119	3,823	4,482	2,549
Students with disabilities8	247,810	114,483	76,105	26,059	31,163
	Percent
Homeless students as a percent of total       public school enrollment	2.8	4.0	2.1	2.7	2.5
Percentage distribution of homeless       students, by primary nighttime residence
Doubled-up or shared housing3	74.5	69.4	77.8	79.5	80.2
Hotels or motels	6.4	5.6	8.5	5.8	4.6
Shelters, transitional housing, or     awaiting foster care placement	15.4	21.1	11.2	10.2	9.6
Unsheltered4	3.3	3.5	2.3	4.1	5.2
Percent of homeless students with selected       characteristics
Unaccompanied homeless youth5	8.4	7.7	7.8	9.7	11.3
English language learners6	15.3	18.0	16.1	10.4	6.5
Migrant students7	1.2	1.0	0.9	3.1	1.6
Students with disabilities8	18.2	18.4	17.6	18.2	19.5

1 Represents the sum of counts by grade.

2 Does not sum to the total number of homeless students because of missing data on primary nighttime residence. (These data are missing for less than 1 percent of homeless students.)

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

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

5 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.

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

7 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 https://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 2015-16 school year and therefore had no data to provide on migrant homeless students.

8 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-15-16-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. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and missing data on primary nighttime residence. Because this table is based on data reported at the school district level, counts and percentages of homeless students may differ from those shown in tables based on state-level data.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDFacts file 118, Data Group 655, extracted August 18, 2018, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); and Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2015-16. (This table was prepared August 2018.)