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: 2016-17

Primary nighttime residence or selected student characteristic	Total, all districts	City				Suburban				Town				Rural
		Total	Large	Midsize	Small	Total	Large	Midsize	Small	Total	Fringe	Distant	Remote	Total	Fringe	Distant	Remote
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Number
Total public school enrollment	50,951,898	16,019,110	8,753,302	3,697,275	3,568,533	21,706,263	18,944,158	1,773,701	988,404	5,564,705	1,255,120	2,662,687	1,646,898	7,661,820	3,982,261	2,690,370	989,189
Total number of homeless students1	1,403,423	656,347	413,983	141,749	100,615	442,332	377,282	42,756	22,294	141,799	29,195	70,316	42,288	162,945	84,594	55,997	22,354
Number of homeless students, by primary nighttime residence2
Doubled-up or shared housing3	1,049,771	460,134	276,386	110,068	73,680	343,551	294,029	32,709	16,813	113,516	23,586	56,252	33,678	132,570	67,371	46,659	18,540
Hotels or motels	92,630	37,815	18,980	10,060	8,775	38,147	32,674	3,539	1,934	8,567	1,482	4,599	2,486	8,101	5,589	1,948	564
Shelters, transitional housing, or awaiting foster care placement	199,667	124,253	91,715	17,269	15,269	48,311	40,664	4,981	2,666	13,135	2,563	6,567	4,005	13,968	8,231	4,052	1,685
Unsheltered4	52,220	26,196	19,071	4,313	2,812	11,792	9,481	1,443	868	6,345	1,529	2,789	2,027	7,887	3,236	3,229	1,422
Number of homeless students with selected characteristics
Unaccompanied homeless youth5	121,504	49,271	28,392	11,308	9,571	37,524	30,814	4,291	2,419	15,789	2,736	8,062	4,991	18,920	9,825	6,021	3,074
English language learners6	222,200	124,023	83,304	25,596	15,123	71,995	64,827	4,916	2,252	15,697	4,207	6,744	4,746	10,485	6,352	2,341	1,792
Migrant students7	16,435	6,128	1,243	2,544	2,341	3,323	2,407	566	350	4,464	1,109	2,043	1,312	2,520	1,030	928	562
Students with disabilities8	257,702	120,232	78,111	23,163	18,958	79,361	66,527	8,376	4,458	26,328	5,424	13,093	7,811	31,781	16,159	11,136	4,486
	Percent
Homeless students as a percent of total public school enrollment	2.8	4.1	4.7	3.8	2.8	2.0	2.0	2.4	2.3	2.5	2.3	2.6	2.6	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.3
Percentage distribution of homeless students, by primary nighttime residence9	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Doubled-up or shared housing3	75.3	71.0	68.0	77.7	73.3	77.8	78.0	76.7	75.5	80.2	80.9	80.1	79.8	81.6	79.8	83.5	83.5
Hotels or motels	6.6	5.8	4.7	7.1	8.7	8.6	8.7	8.3	8.7	6.1	5.1	6.6	5.9	5.0	6.6	3.5	2.5
Shelters, transitional housing, or awaiting foster care placement	14.3	19.2	22.6	12.2	15.2	10.9	10.8	11.7	12.0	9.3	8.8	9.4	9.5	8.6	9.7	7.3	7.6
Unsheltered4	3.7	4.0	4.7	3.0	2.8	2.7	2.5	3.4	3.9	4.5	5.2	4.0	4.8	4.9	3.8	5.8	6.4
Percent of homeless students with selected characteristics
Unaccompanied homeless youth5	8.7	7.5	6.9	8.0	9.5	8.5	8.2	10.0	10.9	11.1	9.4	11.5	11.8	11.6	11.6	10.8	13.8
English language learners6	15.8	18.9	20.1	18.1	15.0	16.3	17.2	11.5	10.1	11.1	14.4	9.6	11.2	6.4	7.5	4.2	8.0
Migrant students7	1.2	0.9	0.3	1.8	2.3	0.8	0.6	1.3	1.6	3.1	3.8	2.9	3.1	1.5	1.2	1.7	2.5
Students with disabilities8	18.4	18.3	18.9	16.3	18.8	17.9	17.6	19.6	20.0	18.6	18.6	18.6	18.5	19.5	19.1	19.9	20.1

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 2016-17 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).

9 Excludes children not reported by primary nighttime residence.

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-16-17-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 June 11, 2019, from the EDFacts Data Warehouse (internal U.S. Department of Education source); Common Core of Data (CCD), "Local Education Agency Universe Survey," 2016-17; and Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE), "Public District File," 2016-17. (This table was prepared July 2019.)