Definition: Percentage of pre-K–12 public school students recorded as being homeless at any point in the school year, by grade level (e.g., among California pre-K–12 students who were homeless at some point during the 2021 school year, 47.1% were in grades pre-K through 5).
Data Source: California Dept. of Education, Coordinated School Health and Safety Office custom tabulation (Feb. 2023).
Footnote: Years presented are the final year of a school year (e.g., 2020-21 is shown as 2021). Students are recorded as homeless if their nighttime residence is (i) shared housing with others due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason, (ii) a hotel or motel, (iii) a temporary shelter, or (iv) unsheltered. A student may be recorded as homeless in more than one school, school district, or county during a school year; as a result, these data may include duplicate counts of homeless students. Data for 2015 are not available due to changes in reporting. The notation S refers to percentages that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 60 total homeless students. N/A means that data are not available.
