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Local Poverty Rates & Student Homelessness

Poverty data can be a useful tool for districts in estimating the approximate number of students who may experience homelessness. According to the Urban Institute (2001 report available here), approximately ten percent of children living in poverty will experience homelessness in a given year. Poverty data can be accessed through the U.S. Census Bureau.

Please note that there are many factors outside of poverty that contribute to homelessness (for example, natural disasters, house fires, domestic violence) that may affect the reported number of homeless students. These data should not be viewed as quotas but as rough guidelines to assist school staff and service providers in thinking about the possible prevalence of homelessness in a community.

This spreadsheet includes data broken down for each NYS school district with the following information:

  • Estimated number of children ages 5-17 (school-age children) living in poverty (2018 data)
  • 10% of children ages 5-17 living in poverty
  • Total number of students identified as homeless by the district (2018-19 data)
  • Number of students possibly under-identified as homeless

The poverty data come from the U.S. Census Bureau. The homeless data come from the State Education Department. The number of students possibly under-identified was calculated by subtracting the homeless data from the 10% of children living in poverty data.

Poverty and Homeless Data XLSX



Highlighted Resources

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LAWS & GUIDANCE

Title I, Part A Set-Aside for Homeless Students: New Data Collection Procedures, Program Service Code 0892

NYSED Field Memo

This Memo from NYSED (May 2019) describes how LEAs should enter data in their student management systems on students served with Title I, Part A set-aside funds for students experiencing homelessness.

DATA

HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCES

Data on Student Homelessness in NYS

New York State Education Department

These spreadsheets contain data collected by NYSED on the number of students who experienced homelessness in NYS at any point in the indicated school year.

FORMS & TEMPLATES

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Template End-of-Year Letter

NYS-TEACHS

Districts may use this template to check in with families at the end of each school year to determine whether their housing situation has changed.

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We provide information, referrals, and trainings to schools, school districts, social service providers, parents, and others about the educational rights of children and youth experiencing homelessness in New York State. NYS-TEACHS is housed at Advocates for Children of New York and is funded by the New York State Education Department.

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